I wrote a while ago a tip, mostly for my future reference, how to set up a HDD with Raspberry Pi formatted using exFat. After more intensive testing on my Samba setup, I’ve decided to go back to NTFS as my format of choice.

A few days ago I switched my HDD on my Raspberry Pi to a SSD drive. I use the Pi as a NAS serving files at home and I wanted to use a HDD for music with less storage but more reliability. This drive runs 24/7. I also chose exFat for the filesystem. I write this as a future self-reference, but may be useful for somebody else, so here it goes.