Formatting an external hard drive under Windows, Mac

Question

Hard disks

In what file system should the external USB hard drive be formatted so that it will be visible during further use under both Windows and Mac? Will exFAT work? There is no FAT, FAT32 option.

Answer 1

If you need to write and read both under Windows and under Mac large files (more than 4 gigabytes like) - then only NTFS. Under Mac, its support is added using Tuxera NTFS. This is how my flash drive works.
If there is no need for large files, then FAT. Works at once and there and there.

Answer 2

Thanks for the answers, settled on exFAT.
PS I found a good article where they chewed it up: " The ExFAT file system is a universal solution for Mac OS X and Windows "

Answer 3

1. Use programs that allow you to see Mac file systems.
An example is MacDrive
2. Fat32. Understand by default both Windows and MacOS.
Cons - the limit on the size of 1 file is 4GB. Also on large disk sizes - a large cluster size and when using small files - a lot of space can be wasted.

Answer 4

UDF.

Answer 5

settled on exFAT

Please note that most (with rare exceptions) devices (not computers) do not support exFAT. Whether it's players, TVs, cameras. So an attempt to stick an SD card or flash drive into a TV set and view pictures / a movie ... will end in a fiasco.

Answer 6

You can buy an ethernet box, insert this hard drive into it and work with it over the network: samba, ftp, nfs, something else from the protocols.