But they are far from ideal for using on external drives and devices. The top two are going to be the ones used on your Mac and Windows machines by default. – exFAT (Works on Mac and PC with better file size restrictions) – FAT32 (Works on Mac and PC with 4gb file size limit) A very basic rundown of the format types available are – Formatting drives sounds very scary and difficult, but it is very simple and can take only a couple of minutes on a fresh drive. It is relatively easy to make a hard drive work between Mac and PC with no file limits.
