#FORMAT AND PARTITION EXTERNAL WD USB3 HDD FOR MAC HOW TO#
How to Format An External Hard Drive for Mac and. I don't want FAT32 either, because of the 4GB restriction. Learn how to format an external hard drive, SSD, or a usb flash drive on mac for both mac and windows. I'm on MacOs Catalina 10.15.6 and using a WD Elements 2TB USB 3.0 INFO: I have a MacBook Pro 2017 13" (no touch bar). When I open the Disk Utility app, the partition is not displayed, but it was displayed by the command line using diskutil. In the formatting process, a partition called EFI appeared.
I've heard APFS is best optimised for SSDs, but does it work well with HDDs? Are there any restrictions? Is there a better alternative that wouldn't cause the problems I mentioned above? A few months ago I decided to format an external HD that I wish to use with my Mac mini, but I can not use 100 of it. I could not use First Aid to repair it when it wouldn't mount after being force ejected, and I had to use Windows to fix it. Sometimes I could not eject the drive because "it was being used by a program", although it wasn't being used. (I checked in spotlight privacy settings and the drive was not excluded.) 3. Folders with color tags in this hdd wouldn't show up when I used the tag filter, it only showed folders from other drives. Not being able to view hdd's content when searching for files using spotlight or search within folders etc. Some of the problems I had with ExFAT were:ġ. So, at this point, I'm asking you what is the best format for an external HDD for use on Mac. Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted): it uses the Mac format. If you don’t need to encrypt the volume or distinguish the case of the file and folder names, you can choose to use this format.
It can protect the integrity of the hierarchical file system.
I had been having some problems with my new external hard drive using ExFAT.I realised I don't care if I can't use the drive with Windows, since I can just transfer the projects for Uni on my second hard drive to use them on the Uni's computer if needed. Mac OS Extended (Journaled): it uses the Mac format of Journaled HFS Plus.
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