motionEyeos questions on external hard drives Raspberry Pi 3

[Bruce Brannock]

If this is been asked before I'm sorry. I've been running motioneyeos for three months probably once in awhile I would get corrupt pictures and videos today I just got a self-powered USB hub and I think that took the strain off the Raspberry Pi so far so good. Here's my question the hard drive is a salvaged hard drive from a laptop when I replaced my laptop with an SSD I purchased a kit to encase 2.5" Hard Drive SATA to USB, right now it is NTFS I'm wondering should I format it to ext4 or something else. Things seem to be working fine, however, there are a couple directories that I created to store the pictures and videos that technically show nothing in the folders that I cannot delete through the FTP or even when I SSH into the Raspberry Pi and do rm -r command. I don't know if that's a thing with the format NTFS the external drive is on or what I would just like to get some opinion.  

[blindeyeseesall]

In my opinion reformat with ext4.  I've run into issues before trying to use NTFS on Linux/Unix system (not necessarily RPi).  If you want to use it in a Windows system share it out using Samba/SMB but let the OS use it's native file system for best results.