So just to be specific about the options I used:
Default : This is a shorthand way of specifying a set of common settings: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async.
Noatime: – The noatime option fully disables writing file access times to the drive every time you read a file. This works well for almost all applications, except for those that need to know if a file has been read since the last time it was modified. The write time information to a file will continue to be updated anytime the file is written to with this option enabled. This can help performance on old hardware.
These are very commonly used options for mounting partitions at boot (ie. /etc/fstab) on Linux systems. Not at all likely to cause problems.
It would be perfectly OK for a user to use “default” option only if you have any reason to think “noatime” should not be used on your system.