However, I think last time I was setting up a hard drive (the aforementioned Seagate drive for my laptop) it said something about how that wasn't the best format? I don't quite recall, it's been a year.Īlso, will the drive even be able to read any previous Time Machine backups? Could I even copy the files from aforementioned iMac hard drive? I used Seagate Toolkit for my windows laptop backups before. So, I'm wondering if it may be better to just buy one and format it so it could read and write to both Windows and Mac and I don't have to reformat anything. However, buying two 5 TB hard drives will cost quite a bit of money. I'm thinking of getting the Western Digital My Passport 5TB Naturally, you can see why I'm eager to get a new one ASAP. When I checked it right afterwards, it SEEMED fine, but I'm not risking breaking it while it's running until I can get my hands on a new hard drive. Also, I haven't backed up in a while because back in March, I accidentally dropped one of my Seagate external hard drives. This, of course, causes a good amount of GB to be taken up. I have like, 147 GB left on the hard drive, and I'm also trying to download a bunch of unlisted YouTube videos and their metadata before July 23 because unlisted videos pre-2017 will be privated.
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I've had it since 2019, maybe 2018? But not only is it getting a few years old, it's also gotten full and I haven't been able to back up using Time Machine in a few months now. So, my current external hard drive for my iMac is a 2TB Seagate. I'm sorry if this is a noobish question, I've only been here for a couple of months now and I'm not exactly a technology/data hoarding expert.