Best File System For Mac and Windows?

I am going to buy a Western Digital My Book 500GB Essential USB2.0 External Hard Drive. I am not sure what the record system is. At the moment i am using a PC though in a few months i will be using both a Mac and a PC thus what would be a compatible folder system which doesnt cause partition. I heard that Fat 32 is simply capable of 32gb though i am not sure.



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Best File System For Mac and Windows?

no ... fat32 is simply capable of handling files up to 4gb size ... if u touch large video files its not just what the doctor ordered ... but if u want to switch between mac and pc u MUST use fat32 .. within is no 32gb limit u can format the unbroken 500gb drive in fat32 if ur bios is uptodate ..
Hard Drives can be formatted to work on any MAC or PC.



So any one you buy will work fine.
Watch out. You are getting some really bad answers here. Let me describe you the real truth.



Mac can format to Mac Extended report system, Unix File System (UFS) or DOS FAT32. Only the latter is seen by a Windows box.



Windows can format NTFS or DOS FAT32. Only the latter can be written to by a MAC OS X system. Your solely cross-platform choice for read-write is FAT32.



Windows formatting software can only engender FAT32 partitions up to 32 GB size but some third knees-up software, such as Swiss Knife, can make huge FAT32 partition. Get it from the link below.