When my purchased my last external hard drive, it came formatted with exFAT. But with that problem solved, is exFAT a viable solution now? On macOS, there is also native read-write support, most likely because MacBooks have an SD-card reader and exFAT is the default file system for SDXC cards thus support must be present to claim SDXC support.įor external hard drives, NTFS used to be a no-brainer as FAT32 has the 4 GB file-size limit while exFAT support in Linux has historically not been very good. This changed in 2019 when Microsoft opened up the spec and now Linux has native read-write support in the kernel. It had a rough start due to Microsoft charging for patent/licensing and thus there’s little incentive and demand for Linux support due to NTFS being a viable alternative. exFAT - The newest file system of all.(This is changing though as Tuxera is contributing a read-write kernel driver for NTFS.) However, macOS only has read-only support and commercial third party driver from Tuxera or Paragon is required for read-write support. Linux has decent support via ntfs-3g, but FUSE makes the performance less than ideal. NTFS - The native file system for Windows. ![]() FAT32 - An oldie supported by all popular OSes, but no longer a good choice due to lack of support for files larger than 4 GB. ![]() When you want a pick a file-system for external storage that’s compatible with multiple operating systems, you get to pick between these: Notes on exFAT and Reliability Why am I writing this?
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