“Can this be swapped back and forth between PC and Mac, to transfer files from one to another? Or does it need to be formatted specifically for one or the other like most hard drives? Sorry if this is a dumb question, I am not a tech person.”
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Yes, it can be used to transfer files between Mac and PC. I don’t remember the out of box format, but from Mac’s disk utilities format as FAT. I have used it this way.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.FAT32 has a 4gb file size limit. exFAT was developed as a replacement in like 2006. Both modern Windows(post XP that has been updated to most recent) and Mac OS X can read and write to exFAT. Certain older peripheral devices may not be able to use exFAT, e.g. PS 4 works with exFAT but not PS 3, but between two modern OS computers exFAT is the way to go.
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