Yeah as above, Minitool Partition Wizard for changing the dirve. And ext2fsd for everything else. Works like a charm.
For some strange reason you lose a shit load of space on a formatted drive compared to an NTFS format (i had 1.81TB after a full format with NTFS, but only 1.70TB after a format with EXT4 - must be a linux thing) but the speed difference more than makes up for it. Load times for me id say are maybe 30-40% quicker on everything. It really does make a difference.
For some strange reason you lose a shit load of space on a formatted drive compared to an NTFS format (i had 1.81TB after a full format with NTFS, but only 1.70TB after a format with EXT4 - must be a linux thing) but the speed difference more than makes up for it. Load times for me id say are maybe 30-40% quicker on everything. It really does make a difference.