You may wish to use an external FireWire or USB hard drive to store your Aperture Library, referenced images, or Vaults. Here are some suggestions on preparing the external hard drive for best performance with Aperture. Many external hard drives come pre-formatted as FAT 32. This is a native Windows file format that can be read by Mac OS X, but is not ideal for use with Aperture.
Seagate External Hard Drive For Mac
Before you begin to use your new external hard drive with Aperture, reformat it to the Mac OS Extended file system:
Format Seagate 8tb For Mac
- Be sure your drive is attached and mounted.
- If you have already written any data to the drive, back it up before proceeding to the next step.
- In the Finder, choose Go > Utilities. The /Applications/Utilities folder will open.
- Launch Disk Utility.
- Click the icon for your external hard drive in the sidebar on the left.
- Click the Erase tab along the top of the window.
- From the Volume Format menu, choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
- Enter a name for the external hard drive in the Name field.
- Click the Erase button.
Seagate External Drive Format
This is the format you choose when you want your Seagate Backup Plus for Time Machine backups on your Mac. If you’re planning to share the Seagate Backup Plus with a Windows PC choose ExFAT. ExFAT is the file system format both iMac or Macbook and a Windows PC can understand and use. Case 1: The Seagate external hard drive is NTFS formatted Most of the time, a Seagate external hard drive being read-only on Mac is because the file system of this disk is the Windows NT file system (NTFS). That's because macOS disabled the NTFS write support by default.