This is the etymology given in the Collins English Dictionary.ref Collins The word which is widely believed to be the root and one of the ones quoted by the Oxford English Dictionary is .
exFAT is an improved version of FAT32. It isnât as efficient as NTFS (Windows) but is cross compatible between Windows OS and Mac OS (since 10.6.5), unlike NTFS and HFS+. I recommend using it when compatibility between Mac and Windows is important, at the (small) cost of efficiency (such as file size bloating, transfer speeds, general performance). exFAT is the preferred format for flash memory, used for media such as SD cards and SSD. Written Jun 22.
That's because OS X, when it erases the disk with exFAT, makes your USB drive unreadable for PCs. in response to dadlewis There is only one universal format, FAT32 or MSDOS. If the flash drive is formatted as such already then you need do nothing to use it on a Mac. 1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.