And it also works on some other devices like digital cameras that don’t support NTFS.
Mac OS X offers full read-write support for exFAT and it can be accessed on Linux after installing some additional software. On the other hand, the exFAT works well with large-sized partition up to 8TB in size while FAT32 can only work with a partition up to 2TB in Windows.īesides, it is more compatible than NTFS. That is to say, you can store the single file larger than 4GB on a partition with exFAT file system. On one hand, this file system makes up for the limit of FAT32, maximum file 4GB in size. It is optimized for flash memory such as USB flash drives and SD cards.
ExFAT (Extended File Allocation Table) is a relative new file system that was first introduced to us in 2006.
