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Formatting a portable hard drive

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by JAL on Wed Jul 24, 2019 5:49 pm

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In the past, to back up photos, I have used a portable hard drive formatted with NTFS and Paragon driver with a Mac. Having just bought a new portable hard drive, is there any significant benefit (or drawback) to formatting the new drive with HFS+, if I expect to continue using a Mac? Or should I use exFAT? I am trying to understand if any of these options are significantly better than the other. Thanks for any light you can shed on this.

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by E.J. Peiker on Wed Jul 24, 2019 7:11 pm

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As long as you never need to attach it to a non-Mac you should be OK.

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by Anthony Medici on Thu Jul 25, 2019 7:05 am

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And used on a Mac, a hard drive formatted in HFS+ is significantly faster than one formatted in exFat.

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