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USB DRIVE EDITOR FOR MAC

13-05-2021 by admin

To format a drive on a Mac, you’ll need the built-in Disk Utility application.
Press Command+Space to open the Spotlight search dialog, type “Disk Utility”,
and press “Enter” to launch the app.

I feel old saying this, but having used computers since before external hard
drives existed, I can say with certainty that buying a hard drive is easier
today than it’s ever been before. For traditional drives, prices are low,
options are numerous, and capacities are so high that your only choices are
“enough space,” “more than enough space,” and “way more than enough space.” I
could point you towards a gigantic 5-Terabyte $139 Seagate USB 3.0 hard drive
right now and end this article without another paragraph. Since Apple doesn’t
even sell a Mac with that much disk space, you could back up five (or more)
computers to that drive without running out of room. Or you could store a decade
worth of digital photos alongside a giant media library. For $139!

But buying an external hard drive isn’t necessarily that simple. There are a
bunch of factors worth considering before making a purchase, including
everything from reliability to portability, design, capacity, speed, and
connectivity. Some hard drives are really cheap but have a higher chance of
failing after a year or two of heavy use. Mac sublime text. So in this How-To,
I’m going to discuss the big issues you need to consider, and guide you towards
the best external hard drive for your needs…

Quick Overview

Most hard drives are guaranteed to work for one to two years no matter what you
do with them, ranging from occasional backups to continuous video streaming.
They’ll generally last much longer if you don’t use them every day. However —
and this is really important — if you keep a typical drive mechanism running 24
hours each day for two years, it’s going to burn out. Hard drive longevity used
to be measured with an estimate of “Mean Time Before Failure” (MTBF). Each year
has 61,320 hours, so a drive with a MTBF of 300,000 hours would promise to last
4.9 years if actively used 24 hours each day. Desktop drives typically promised
higher MTBFs than laptop drives, but there were exceptions.

Unfortunately, MTBF numbers were only predictions — and often inaccurately high.
Consumers complained. So drive makers switched to a different but even less
useful metric: Annualized Failure Rate (AFR), which estimates the percentage of
total drives made that will fail in a year due to manufacturing defects. All an
AFR of “0.73%” suggests is that 7,300 of 1,000,000 drives will likely develop
problems in year one due to defects rather than abuse. That low percentage may
seem reassuring, but it obscures the reality that heavy drive use increases
failures over time, and some drives are much better-suited to heavy use than
others.

My advice: purchase your drive with a specific purpose in mind. If you’re
backing up precious photos, home videos, or important files, buy a name brand,
desktop-sized hard drive from a company with a track record of reliability, and
pay a little more for it. It doesn’t really matter how the drive looks, just
that it will work for a long time. But if you’re just using a drive to store
apps, games, or iTunes movies that you can easily re-download at any time, or
only intermittently turn a drive on for backups, you can feel comfortable going
with something cheaper, more portable, or fancier-looking.

Capacity + Pricing

It’s easy to pick the right hard drive capacity these days: most external drives
now offer at least as much space as a standard Mac (1TB) — and there are
thousands of options to choose from — and you can get an 8-Terabyte drive for
only $300. Most people will find that that 4TB is more than enough to hold years
of accumulated photos, media files, and data, but there’s no wrong answer to the
capacity question: it’s mostly a matter of personal preference right now. That
said, there are sweet spots.

Html editor free download for mac os x. Expect to pay around $70 for a basic 1TB
drive, $85 for 2TB, $100 for 3TB, $120 for 4TB, $150 for 5TB, $250 for 6TB, or
$300 for 8TB. By “basic,” I mean the popular Expansion and Backup Plus
consumer-grade desktop drives shown above from Seagate, a major (but not top)
drive manufacturer with a good (but not great) warranty. The prices for
Seagate’s Backup Plus Slim portable drives are similar up until the 4TB mark,
where the price doubles. Generally, 3TB to 5TB would be the sweet spots between
capacity and pricing, but Amazon customer reviews of the 3TB Expansion mirror
comments I’ve seen elsewhere online: Seagate’s 3TB units had lots of problems.
You’re better off considering 2TB, 4TB or 5TB units instead.

Don’t be surprised that longer-lasting drives can cost twice as much as basic
models. They’ll typically last longer, which is worth something. Similarly,
don’t be surprised if a solid state drive (SSD) costs much more and offers lower
capacity than a mechanical drive. SSDs are just beginning to become mainstream
internal drives for computers, and their capacities aren’t yet at the “more than
enough space” point.

Reliability

Since MTBF and AFR are such sketchy measures of hard drive reliability, I
suggest that you focus on two more tangible factors: the reputation of the
manufacturer, and the length of the drive’s warranty. A three-year warranty is
the best you can expect from a consumer-grade external drive from a top vendor,
regardless of whether it’s a mechanical drive or SSD. (Only the very best
internal SSDs now offer consumer 5-year and professional 10-year warranties,
though notably with much less storage space than the drives covered in this
article. See my How-To guides to SSDs for iMac, desktop Macs, and MacBooks
here.)

If reliability is your major concern, as it generally is mine, I’d suggest you
look most seriously at G-Technology’s mechanical drives (featuring
ultra-reliable Hitachi hard drive mechanisms) and Samsung’s external SSDs, all
of which have three-year warranties. I reviewed G-Tech’s excellent G-Drive USB
for 9to5Mac, and have trusted their earlier drives for many years without any
issues. Samsung’s T1 SSD was covered in my guide to SSDs for Mac minis and
MacBooks, and while it’s more expensive and lower-capacity than the G-Drive USB,
it has no moving parts to worry about. Go with a G-Drive if you need a large
reliable drive, or T1 if you want something small and reliable.

Portability + Design

There are five major types of external hard drives: enterprise-class desktop
drives, regular desktop drives, laptop-class portable drives, slim laptop-class
portable drives, and flash drives. The first two use 3.5″ hard drive mechanisms
and are effectively non-portable: they sit on your desk, depend on wall power,
and aren’t easy to carry in typical bags. Flash drives are keychain-sized but
relatively limited in capacity and crazy expensive when they begin to approach
laptop drive capacities. (Corsair makes $45 128GB and $75 256GB USB 3.0 flash
drives if you want something tiny.) So if you need a portable hard drive with
respectable storage capacity at a reasonable price, you’ll most likely pick a
laptop-class drive with a 2.5″ hard drive mechanism inside.

Owned by Seagate, boutique drive maker LaCie’s lineup nicely illustrates the
relative size differences between the categories of external drives, though
there are even smaller laptop and slim laptop drives out there now. In January,
I reviewed both Seagate’s Seven, the world’s thinnest external mechanical hard
drive, and LaCie’s Mirror, a boxy mirrored drive with twice the capacity. Both
use USB 3.0 for data and power, with no need for an external power supply.
Either one can easily fit into a laptop bag, backpack, or purse, but Seven is
much, much smaller.


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If you want a portable, reliable hard drive at a low price with minimal design
frills, consider Western Digital’s #1 best-selling My Passport Ultra drives,
which have a 4.5/5-Star Amazon user rating. But if you’re looking for something
with a distinctive design — and willing to compromise a little on long-term
reliability — LaCie’s collection of Philippe Starck, Neil Poulton, and Porsche
Design drives are definitely the best around. Pick the one that appeals to your
personal taste.

Speed, Connectivity, iOS Compatibility, and Apple’s AirPort Time Capsules

A lot could be said about each of these topics, but I’ll save you some time and
cut to the chase: recent developments mean that most people will be best off
with USB 3.0 wired drives, except under one of three circumstances: you need
incredible speed for Mac video editing, you want to stream video to your iOS
devices, or you want to do automated wireless backups.

If you’re planning on doing 4K or other disk-intensive Mac video editing,
Thunderbolt hard drives such as Elgato’s Thunderbolt+ Drive or G-Tech’s G-RAID
Studio Thunderbolt 2can deliver dramatically better speeds than drives that
share your Mac’s USB bus. They’re much more expensive than comparably capacious
USB drives, but they’re built for professional use, and priced accordingly. That
said, USB 3.0 drives tend to outperform prior-generation FireWire 800 drives,
which were adequate for pre-4K editing, so most users will have no need to look
for faster options. If you’re concerned about real-world speeds for a USB drive,
check the manufacturer’s stated “up to XXXMB/second transfer rates” claims and
subtract around 10-20% for real world performance.

If you want to use your hard drive to store content that can also be streamed to
your iOS device, consider Western Digital’s My Passport Wireless ($165/1TB,
$190/2TB) or Seagate’s Wireless Plus ($135/500GB, $160/1TB, $190/2TB), which
offer integrated Wi-Fi streaming, a built-in battery for completely wireless
operation, and USB connectivity for synchronization. I’ve tested both, and while
Seagate’s version has the edge on pricing, speed, and battery performance, My
Passport Wireless has an SD slot built in to back up your digital photos on the
road. iOS users will have a better experience with the Wireless Plus, while Mac
users and digital photographers with infrequent iOS needs may prefer My Passport
Wireless. Go with the one that best suits your needs.

Last but not least, if you want to do automated wireless backups, consider — but
think carefully about — an Apple AirPort Time Capsule. I currently use the
latest version of Time Capsule, which has been completely redesigned and has
fast 802.11ac wireless with your choice of a 2TB ($280) or 3TB ($350) hard
drive. On a positive note, it works completely as expected, and although the
initial Time Machine backup process for a large Mac hard drive is incredibly
slow, incremental backups later on are fine. My concerns are mostly in
reliability and pricing. I’ve had two prior-generation Time Capsules experience
hard drive issues, and though Apple may have fixed those problems with the new
model, it’s very easy to go out and buy a standalone drive for much less. I’m
not a big fan of wireless drives right now, but continue to hope that wireless
technology will catch up with the demands of current machines. All of my
important files are on a wired G-Drive USB, and they will probably stay there
for the foreseeable future.

If you have an external hard drive or USB flash drive that you’d like to use on
both Macs and Windows PCs, choosing the right file system to format the drive
can be confusing. Learn a few ways to make your drive Mac and PC friendly.

Need to access or transfer files between Mac and PC? As simple as this task
sounds, it’s not very straightforward for inexperienced users. Since Mac OS X
and Windows use totally different file systems, the way a drive is formatted can
determine what type of computer it will work with. In fact, there are four ways
you can format an external or USB flash drive to achieve varying degrees of
compatibility between Macs and PCs. Let’s take a look at them:

HFS+

Mac OS X’s native file system is HFS+ (also known as Mac OS Extended), and it’s
the only one that works with Time Machine. But while HFS+ is the best way to
format drives for use on Macs, Windows does not support it. If you’re only going
to be using your external or USB flash drive with certain PCs – such as at home
or the office – you might be interested in a program called MacDrive. When you
install MacDrive on a Windows PC, it will be able to seamlessly read & write to
HFS+ drives. This isn’t a good solution if you need your drive to work on any PC
without installing software, though.

NTFS

The native Windows file system is NTFS, which is only partially compatible with
Mac OS X. Macs can read files on NTFS drives, but it cannot write to them. So if
you need to get files from a PC to your Mac, NTFS is a decent option. However,
you won’t be able to move files in the other direction, from Mac to PC.

FAT32

The most universally supported way to format your drive is with the FAT32 file
system. It works with all versions of Mac OS X and Windows. Case closed, right?
Well, not so fast. Unfortunately, FAT32 is a very old file system and has some
technical limitations. For example, you cannot save files that are larger than
4GB on a FAT32-formatted drive. This is a deal-breaker if you work with huge
files. The other limitation is the total size of the partition. If you format
your FAT32 drive in Windows, the drive partition cannot be larger than 32GB. If
you format it from a Mac running 10.7 Lion, the drive partition can be up to
2TB. Much better, except for that pesky 4GB limit.

EXFAT

The exFAT file system eliminates the two major deficiencies of FAT32: the
largest partition and file sizes it supports are virtually unlimited by today’s
standards. Awesome, it’s perfect! Almost… since exFAT is fairly new, it isn’t
compatible with older Macs and PCs. Any Mac running 10.6.5 (Snow Leopard) or
10.7 (Lion) supports exFAT, while PCs running Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP1,
and Windows 7 are compatible. If you know you’ll be using computers running
updated versions of these operating systems, exFAT is the clear best choice.

FORMAT A DRIVE USING DISK UTILITY ON A MAC

 1. Launch Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities).
 2. Select your external hard drive or USB flash drive from the list on the
    left.
 3. Click on the Erase tab. Select the format – Mac OS Extended (HFS+), MS-DOS
    (FAT32), or exFAT – then name the drive.
 4. Click the Erase button and the drive will start formatting. Be aware that
    formatting a drive deletes all of the files on it, so back up anything
    important before completing this step.


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FORMAT A DRIVE USING WINDOWS


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 1. Go to Computer (or My Computer in Windows XP).
 2. Select your drive from the list and right-click on it. Choose Format from
    the contextual menu.
 3. A window will pop up where you can choose the format – NTFS, FAT32, or
    exFAT. Make sure the allocation unit size is set to default and type in a
    volume label.
 4. Click Start to format the drive.





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