Before you buy a Mac computer, you need to know some precautions of the Mac system in advance. The Mac system does not support any format of external U disk or hard disk. Mac has its own fixed format for external hard disk devices, and other formats are listed here. Only aware reads are supported on the system , not writes. So does Mac support fat32 format, and what format of mobile hard disk does Mac support?
1. Does mac support fat32 format?
1. For this problem, you can directly go to the Mac Apple website to inquire. On the "Disk Utility User Manual" page, select the Mac system version to find it.
Generally speaking, the Mac system supports four types of disk systems: Apple File System (APFS), MacOS Extended System, MS-DOS (FAT) System and ExFAT System.
Figure 1: Disk systems supported by Mac
2. By querying the Baidu Encyclopedia information corresponding to the FAT format, we can learn that the FAT format is a file system invented by Microsoft. Now the FAT system refers to the FAT32 system, because Mac supports FAT32 format disks.
Figure 2: FAT format
2. What format of mobile hard disk does Mac support?
From the above, you can know that Mac systems usually support mobile hard disks in four formats: APFS, MacOS Extended, FAT, and ExFAT. Of course, there will be subtle differences depending on the version of the Mac system.
1. The first is the APFS format. This Apple file system format mainly runs on Mac computers of MacOS 10.13 and later versions, and is used as the default file system.
Figure 3: AFPS format
2. The second is the MacOS extended format, which is compatible with MacOS 10.12 and earlier Mac system versions, and has higher Mac applicability.
Figure 4: MacOS Extensions
3. The third and fourth types are FAT format and ExFAT format respectively. Disks in these two formats can be used with Windows system. If you want to be compatible with the disk read and write functions of Windows system and Mac system at the same time, you can use the disk Convert to these two formats for use.
Figure 5: Windows Compatible Format
3. How to read and write Mac for unsupported formats
If your external disk is not one of the four formats supported by Mac, such as NTFS format, and you are eager to read and write files on the disk at this time, then it is recommended that you use Txuera NTFS For Mac software to identify and read the external disk .
This software can easily enable Mac to support the read and write operations of disks in various commonly used formats. It can be used automatically after installation, and users only need to access external disks without other operations. It is convenient and simple to use.
Figure 6: Reading and writing other disk formats
The above is the answer to the questions about whether Mac supports fat32 format and what format of mobile hard disk Mac supports. In this article, by checking the Apple website, I learned that Mac not only supports FAT32 format disks, but also supports three other different disk formats. Of course, if you encounter a disk format that cannot be read or written, you can also install Txuera NTFS For Mac software to solve this problem. For more detailed tutorials and answers to questions about the software, you can go to the Txuera NTFS For Mac Chinese website to learn more.