Long story short is I’m a corporate pilot and run our aircraft. We have a long trip coming up where all the grand kids will want movies. Our internet in the jet will cut out overseas. For this I wanted to load a lot of purchased movies they can connect to and view. I have the networking within the aircraft to let all the iPads stream from a server (MacBook Pro M1). My question is if there’s a way to use an external drive on both a windows PC and a Mac. I have a 64TB home server I’ve built that has all my stored movie files and I’d like to transfer them using my windows desktop to a usbC drive then plug the drive into my MacBook to use as a Plex server over our internal network. Is that possible? Just need to know what to order.
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Can MacOS use an external drive from windows?
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No, you are thinking of FAT32 which has the 4 GB file size limit.
https://www.************/lib/extended-file-allocation-table.html
I guess you are thinking of FAT32, which has a 4GB limit on file size
www.ntfs.com
Maximum volume size in exFAT is 128 PetaBytes (PB) (128,000,000 GB)
Maximum file size is 16 ExaBytes (16,000,000,000 GB)
So, today, no practical limit (in any "normal" usage, anyway
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exFAT vs. FAT32 Comparison - NTFS.com
NTFS General Information: Windows cannot format FAT32 volumes bigger than 32GB.
Maximum volume size in exFAT is 128 PetaBytes (PB) (128,000,000 GB)
Maximum file size is 16 ExaBytes (16,000,000,000 GB)
So, today, no practical limit (in any "normal" usage, anyway
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