I am currently upgrading from my Macbook laptop to a true PC. I do mostly photo and video editing, and will primarily be doing them on the new PC. I use external SSD drives for both my photo/video backups as well as my working lightroom/davinci resolve drives.
I plan to use the PC for most of my editing, but may also want to use the Mac if I am traveling. I know ExFAT is a format option that allows for use with both windows and Mac, but with lots of small photos ExFAT takes up drastically more space than the other formats due to the clusters (I think). It also sounds like it's slightly more prone to data corruption.
Does anyone have any suggestions for solutions? Is using ExFAT essentially my only option other than buying paragon or another NTFS reader on the Mac?