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Exfat or fat32 for external hard drive mac and windows

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macOS can read NTFS volumes but cannot natively write to them.

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NTFS-The native files system for Windows.

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Manual formatting-Use Disk Management (Windows) or Disk Utility (Mac) to format your drive in non-native formats. Toolkit Optimize-Format your drive for optimal performance with just a few simple clicks. There are two ways you can optimize performance: If you use the drive with only one type of computer, you can optimize file copy performance by formatting the drive in the native file system for your operating system-NTFS for Windows or HFS+ for Macs. LaCie Rugged SECURE is delivered formatted in exFAT for compatibility with both Windows and Mac computers.