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How to format the external hard drive for MAC
If you just picked up an external hard drive, it doesn't matter if you have the portable ones or if you have these external ones that have to be plugged into the power supply, whichever one you have, regardless of brand, you should format it natively for your Mac. And some hard drives come formatted that way already, but best practices format it using your max. So, you know, you're going to get the best performance out of your hard drive. Some of these are meant for PC, so they have different formatting when they come right out of the box. So I recommend formatting them. Now, if it's your first time here, I make easy-to-follow tech tutorials five times a week.
So please consider subscribing. So this is the hard drive. I'm going to show you how to format now, the process of the same, regardless of the hard drive, I have a bunch of different brands here. This one is made by Lucy and it's the Porsche design made by the lessee. I'll have a link in the description if you want to check it out.
My favorite thing about this drive is that it's USB C. So my new Mac, the 2017 and non have a USBC connection, which really increased. That the process of transferring files from one hard drive to another hard drive, which I do quite a bit. These older drives had USB three. They're a little bit slower. So if you have USB-C, this is a really great hard drive to check out and I've, I've bought, two or three of these and they've been really great so far.
Since I've been using it for the last couple of weeks. So let's jump into the computer. I want to show you a couple of things. I want to show you how to format this drive with the software they come with. All hard drives, come with software that lets you format on the partition. This one is a lessee software, but then I'll show you the way I like to do it, which is using disc utility.
It's a native free app that comes with the Mac that lets you format and partition hard drives. I'll show you how to do that one and how to set up a hard drive as a brand new Mac hard drive. So I just plugged in the lessee drive and it popped up on my desktop this is the icon. I'm just going to move it over here so you can see it easier.
So if I double click on this drive, it actually comes with a setup utility. So you could go through the less C set up utility to set up your hard drive. So let me go through that process and then I'll show you the way I typically do it and that works on any hard drive. It works on Laci or any external hard drive that you use and that's by using disk utility.
But let me show you this setup process. So I'm just going to go through the setup process, just press next here, and here is telling you to partition the drive so you can make the drive into a lessee share, and let's see, I usually don't need this here. So I grabbed this part and make it, this is a five terabyte drive.
So I want all the five terabytes available right here on my desktop and then I'll press next and it's going to tell me it's going to erase everything is a brand new drive, so that's okay and then this is going to take a second and disconnects the drive, the format set then, and it's going to remounted back on my desktop, usually on a Mac.
It's going to ask me to set this up for time machine. I'm just going to say don't use it, I already have a time machine device on this computer. You could register the product here. Breast next. I don't want any of these installed on the computer. So I'm going to install that I'm going to press next and I'm going to press finish here.
So now the legacy drive has been mounted and these are the things that the setup installed for me. I usually. Go ahead and delete these. I don't need these on this drive and now if I press command, I hear, I should see that I have five terabytes available on this drive. Still does take a little bit of space doing the formatting this way.
So let me show you the other way of using this utility. So I'm going to just search for disc utility here and with disk utility, you'll see all the external drives that are mounted here. So if I select this one now be careful. I usually like to eject the other drives and unplug them. So that'll show up here.
So I don't accidentally format a drive. I don't want to, in this case, is very clear. This is the lessee drive, and this is how you set it up using this utility. You select the drive and then you want to press erase up here and then you could name your drive, whatever you want to and for your format again, if I'm on a Mac, this is the option you want Mac OS extended journal.
This one, I usually don't do that encrypted. I usually do this one on a Mac. Let me go ahead and name that drive, and I'm going to press your race and it's basically the same processes on mounts. The drive starts erasing it, it takes off everything that was on that hard drive. But that's what I want to do in this case.
Again, it's gonna ask me to use it for the time machine again. I'll say no, and that's it. Now, I have it named the way I want to, and if I press command, I, again, and I look here, five terabytes and again, it does use about a gigabyte, same as before. Those are hidden files that you don't need to worry about. You still have your five terabytes, so that's how you set up an external hard drive on a Mac.
So now I could easily go ahead and drag footage or files or whatever I have onto it, just like that and this was USB-C. So as you saw, that was half a gigabyte downloaded in an instant. I hope you found this useful. Please give it a like and subscribe to this channel. I post tech videos just like this one, five times a week and I hope to see you in the next video. Thanks for watching.