What differences do I need to know choosing between ext4 and NTFS (Performance etc)

I understand that ext4 if faster than NTFS. But whats the speed difference if its like < 20MB/s, perhaps its better to use NTFS for convinence? What are the other implications of this apart from performance?

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Here is a very comprehensive Comparison of file systems.

NTFS has both read and write access now in Linux through NTFS-3G, and you can use third-party programs to gain access to an EXT2/3/4 filesystem from within a Windows operating system.

What I do on my 500g drive is 200 Gig is ext4 300 Gig is Ntfs so what i want to share with my Windows Systems are on the 300 Gig partition. Then I just share the folders that i want the Windows Systems to see over the network. Besides its a good ideal to have a Storage Partition in case if you need to reformat and your data you wanna keep is already backed up. As long as the drive its self doesn't die your good.

I think it's relative, and I also think the best way it's to run some small tests on your own system.

I will always recommend to use a native file system, but if you plan to share the file system, then performance it's on second place.