Best filesystem for an external drive? ExFAT?
- by GiH
What is the best filesystem for use with multiple OS's? I saw this question but its old and doesn't take into account ExFAT. Here is what I know from my findings:
NTFS - Can't write from Mac
FAT32 - Doesn't support files larger than 4GB
HFS - Only mac
ExFAT - ??? I don't know much about this but it seems like it got rid of the 4GB limit of FAT32 and can be read on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Is ExFAT the best bet? I tried formatting the drive in ExFAT just now, but on Windows XP SP3 it was showing up as not formatted...
It seems to me like FAT32 is still the best, but I wanted to see what other people had to say.