I decided to look that up and again it’s not really clear, since some either just repeat what Apple has written or they go into the pros and cons of Master Boot Record vs GUID Partition Map.īut two sources say basically that Master Boot Record is the choice for MS-DOS (FAT) or ExFAT, and Drives cannot exceed 2TB” However, the file system is not supported by many older systems.In Apple’s “Disk Utility User Guide”, the Section “Partition schemes available in Disk Utility on Mac” is rather ambiguous as to whether “Master Boot Record” or “GUID Partition Map” is the appropriate choice for formatting a Hard Drive for use between a Mac and a PC, since the wording makes it seem that both can be used by Mac and “Some newer Microsoft Windows-based computers” In theory, data capacity of up to 2 TB is possible, but Microsoft has limited the partition size in newer systems to 32 GB in order to promote the modern NFTS format.ĮxFAT is a further development of FAT that in principle offers unattainable storage and data capacity. The maximum data size is limited to 4 GB in the latest version FAT32. It is not supported by many applications.įAT is a file system developed by Microsoft that is also supported by Linux and macOS. Mac OS Extended (Journaled) with the addition that the file system can differentiate between upper and lower case (e.g. HFS+ or Mac OS Extended (case-sensitive and journaled) Windows/Linux devices are only able to read but not write on USB sticks in this format. A file system developed by Apple that is particularly suited to data media with large memory capacity.
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