Ok, this is a very theoretical question but looking towards the future and want opinions.

I have a external USB 8TB HDD I just started using to backup my NAS onto. I know that with 8TB, neither will work in MorphOS, but for the future potential of the OS does anyone recommend one format over another?

In the past I had a USB 2TB HDD I backed up to and it worked perfect on MorphOS, it was formatted in NTFS and I could easily read data from it.

The NAS is a QNAP if that helps.

I personally would use exFATFileSystem.

It is available for MorphOS and should work fine. The only culprit is that you need to compile the write support version on your own. This is required as m$ does only allow to distribute a read only binary, AFAIR.

Basically you just need to install the MorphOS SDK, change one line within the makefile and type make. Afterwards you are able to read and write ExFAT partitions of any kind.

Very interesting!

Do you know if MorphOS will understand the USB 3.0 HDD drive properly to read and write? Right now when I plug it in, it keeps power cycling the device.

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Well it should fall back to USB2 as there is no USB3 controller support in MorphOS, so the speed is limited, but it should work.