Good afternoon wamuggers, I was in Good Guys this morning and noticed a number of Seagate HD, one of which was 5tb 'Expansion drive'; I didnt know these were available and it really got my attention as I am in the process of consolidating all my data from numerous drives, and this size would be perfect as my offsite backup drive.
However, on closer inspection I noticed that it was for Windose only which is a real bummer and has 'Backup software ready to go' and is USB 3 enabled. They do have a 'Desktop Backup drive 2tb' that can be used with both Win and Macs without reformatting and using Seagate's backup software. My question is, can I reformat this drive for use with my iMac as I want to start using Time Machine for my backups now and this size would see me good for a few years. I cant find anything online saying I shouldnt reformat and wanted to check with you good people before I handed over the dollars. One cnet review says that it is possible to reformat as per other external HD Many thanks and best regards to all Chris
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