Ntfs Or Exfat Portable External Hard

Most of the Mac users dont know this and will buy portable external hard disks to expand the storage space.

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I will use 1-2 external 1TB SSD drives as I am very concerned about backups as a hobby photographer and rather spread my risk than have it all on a single drive.

I Really want to make the switch to Mac OS, but will also install Windows as a backup.

My research suggests that with boot camp I should reserve 30GB, and possibly more if I also need the entire Photoshop range under windows.

My question now is which format I should use for my internal SSD drive on the iMac: HFS, exfat or Fat32 Are there any performance differences I used Fat32 on an external disk for my MBA and am not impressed that file sizes are limited to 4GB max.

Does HFS perform much better under MacOS with respect to access time and transfer speed Finally, would using exfat help me avoid partitioning my internal SSD between Mac OS and Windows My concern is that once I set the partition, there is no way of changing the allocation later, unless I backup the entire Mac and reformat the entire SSD, or am I missing something here and one can change the allocation of partitions later on too BTW, I will also use 2-3 external disks which will be my travel backup drives for photos as I shoot them on trip and which I will use as expansions to my internal SSD drive when I am at home.

Would it help using a more flexible exFat format for these, or is HFS best too will I be able to read any photos I saved on HFS when I use boot camp on my iMac to run windows, or does this only work if I used exFat for all my files thanks, OLiver.

The windows installer will provide the correct format during installation.

FAT is for DOS, or sharing files between mac and windows and any other OS that can read it.

Its very outdated for OSs, its great for flash drives and data drives when you share files, otherwise if you dont need to share you probably dont need FAT.

I would suggest at least a 100 GB Windows partition for the OS, Photoshop and a decent amount of free space.

HFS (Mac OS Extended) is of course best for OS X since that is its native file format.

If you need to write files that will be larger than 4 GB, then FAT32 is out.

Use exFAT instead.

For all intents and purposes, there is no file size limit, and the format is both readwrite in Windows and OS X without the need for any third party software to access it.

Windows doesnt always recognize a drive formatted that way on a Mac, even though you have the option to do it there.

If the block size Windows chooses is lower than that (it usually is), just use what it suggests.

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Ntfs Or Exfat For Mac