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Is it a good idea to format a USB flash drive using HFS+?

Of course, I only intend to use it with Macs. Do you think it would have better performance than using FAT? Thanks!
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Alejandro

Comments: 3 Responses to “Is it a good idea to format a USB flash drive using HFS+?”

    13 years ago

    If I was only going to use a flash drive with Macs, I would definitely format it as Mac Extended, yes. You may or may not see a performance difference, but the drive will certainly play with Macs better. I usually reformat flash drives all the time (instead of erasing) so it is pretty easy to go back and forth if you need to.

    Alejandro
    13 years ago

    Thanks for your quick and useful answer!

    Michael
    13 years ago

    If you live in a Mac/Windows world or plan to share drive with friends format with FAT32. The only draw back is files can not be over 4GB, but I doubt that would be much of a drawback

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