And it is also much saver in terms of data loss (see footnote). If you use your USB-stick only on Macs you will want to reformat it to HFS+ which allows (virtually) unlimited file sizes, longer file names and some Mac specific things. So maybe you would like to change the file system on your stick to something more modern.
you can easily lose your data (see footnote).you can’t put any files larger than 4GB on a FAT disk.There is also NTFS, (Windows default / does not work on Mac) and there is HFS+ which is the default for Mac OS X.įAT is by far the oldest file system and has some weaknesses: Yet you might know that there are different types of disk formats.
By default all USB-Sticks are formatted as FAT (MS-DOS default) so they work on Windows, Mac and Linux. If you’re not a nerd you probably just used it out of the box. Quit possible that you own a USB-Stick (or USB-Hard-Drive) that is 4GB or larger (8GB seems to be standard now,right?).
