Should I use the "Final Cut Pro Storage Share" Purpose for my RAW PHOTOS?

This appears to be new in 25.10 (which is also my first install version), so there’s limited information I can find about it. Bouncing around ChatGPT for random help along the way, it has consistently recommended I use this Purpose for my photos, but I can’t really find any outside information to validate (or contradict) it..

My photo library is ~5TB and growing, and is a bunch of 50MB+ RAW photos, along with maybe half of them having sidecar XMP/ACR files which are generally <1MB and almost always <500KB.

I am using Mac OS as my primary computer, but in the recent past was using Windows. There’s also the warning about switching it with existing data, I believe related to the Apple-style character encoding. I believe this shouldn’t really be a concern for me, as all my file and folder names are very simple and consistent? A bunch of name_filenumber.cr2, and similar… I can’t think of any other special characters that might have been used (I guess Final Cut probably does with a bunch of autogenerated temp files or something?). My Lightroom catalog also creates a bunch of cache files, BUT THIS IS ON A LOCAL NVME, NOT THE SMB SHARE.

No. You don’t need that preset for your photos generally. It’s only to meet documented requirements for one application. If you just need SMB storage, use the default preset.

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