It's fast, supports huge datafiles and both your Windows 7 and your Mac will be able to read/write to it.
#NTFS VS EXFAT FOR MAC MAC OS X#
Starting from Mac OS X 10.6.5, the OS supports reading from and writing to exFAT formatted drives. (It can even ReadyBoost from an exFat flash drive). Windows 7 will read and write FAT, exFAT and NFTS without any problem. Additionally, the removable drives and memory cards can also be formatted with the exFAT file system, which is a derivative to the old FAT32.
For removable drives and another form of USB interface-based storage, we use FAT32. It won't be able to write data on the drive, unless you use some extra software and hacks,īut some users have reported some instability and performance issues using NFTS on a Mac. When we talk about the Windows OS, we realize that the operating system installs on a partition formatted with the NTFS file system. NFTS is an alternative, but your Mac (starting from 10.3) can only read it. It's an excellent format for your flash drives and/or external (not internal!) hard drives. TestDisk is powerful free data recovery software It. exFATĮxFAT won't have this limit since it's capable of supporting files up to 16 exabytes (16.000.000 terabytes). Talking about the compatibility, full read and write support is provided by Mac, Android, and Windows operating system, but for Linux distributions, the appropriate software facilitates the support. exFAT is a very useful, capable cross-platform file system that both macOS and. So you won't be able to transfer files over 4GB like you stated in your question.
Fat is definitely off the table since it only supports files up to 4GB.
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