Best format for older USB flash drives

I have a few older usb flash drives - For general use and for sharing files with others (maybe PC’s) - it looks like exFat seems a good general format. Seem ok?

https://www.kingston.com/en/blog/personal-storage/how-to-format-a-usb-flash-drive

Yes, exFat unless you have a device like an old camera that requires fat32.

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Great - Thanks for the super quick response cornchip!

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Importantly, exFat with Master Boot Record, not GUID Partition Map.

Windows 10 does not understand GUID.

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good point Q: if you did do exFat with GUID - then it would work ok but JUST for MAC right?

Yes, Mac will read anything it can create, so you’ll be hard pressed to break it on a Mac.

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