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Good Day I just would like to know what is the recommend disk format. I plan on redoing my setup and i am not sure if i should stay on ext4 or move to btfs. What is recommed ? Thanks

So, I'm a bit stuck. Over the last years when a disk crashed, I'd pop the crashed disk out, put in a fresh one and repair the volume. No sweat. Over time I've migrated from a mixed 1 and 2TB disks to all 3TB one and earlier this year I'd received a 6TB one as a RMA for a 3TB one from WD. So I was running: Disk 1: 3TB WD - Crashed Disk 2: 3TB WD Disk 3: 6TB WD Disk 4: 3TB WD So I've bought a shiny new 6TB WD to replace disk 1. But that did not work out well. When running the above setup; I've a degraded volume, but it's accessable. When putting in the new one, the volume is crashed and the data is not accessable. I'm not able to slect the repair option; only 'Create'. When putting back the crashed disk, after a reboot the volume is accessable again (degraded). I've did a (quick) SMART test on the new drive and it seems OK. The only thing that's changed since the previous disk replacement is that I've did an upgrade to 6.2.3-25426. Could that be a problem? However, before we proceed (and I waste your time), I've got backups. Of everything. So, deleting and recreating a new volume (or the entire system) would not be that big of a deal; It'll only cost me a lot of time. But that seems the easy way to go. I've got a Hyper-Backup of the system on an external disk and all the apps and a few of the shares. The bigger shares are backed up to several other external disks. If I delete the volume, create a new one, restore the last Hyper-Backup and copy back the other disks, I'm golden? The Hyper-Backup will contain the original shares? Might that not be the best/simplest solution, I've attached some screenshots and some outputs so we know what we are talking about.. Thanks!

Hi Everyone, I'm using DMS 6.1.4 on my case. What filesystem do you use? Could you share your suggestions?