I always reformat new drives, Dave. Mainly to make sure they are formatted properly for Mac OS X. I don't trust retail store drives to be anything but Windows formatted.
And those special apps they would like you to install are usually completely worthless. They _might_ enable some efficiency tweaks, but you need to Google a bunch to find out if that's important or useful. The drive should work fine without, after formatting. Is it USB3? If not low data transfer performance will limit you quite a bit. On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 10:57 AM, David J Brooks <pentko...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just bought and installed a Seagate 1TB external that was on sale for > $89 Canadian. It says it will work on Macs with out having to reformat > by downloading and installing a program from Seagate which i did. Does > anyone else go this route or do you just reformat the drive > > Dave > > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
