The most common file systems are FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS on Windows, APFS and HFS+ on macOS, and EXT on Linux-though you may run into others on occasion. If you have files larger than 4 GB and mostly share with Macs, choose HFS+įile systems are the sort of thing that many computer users take for granted.If you have files larger than 4 GB and mostly share with Windows PCs, choose NTFS.If you have files larger than 4 GB, but still want pretty good support across devices, choose exFAT.If you want to share your files with the most devices and none of the files are larger than 4 GB, choose FAT32.
