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Dave2022

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Original poster
Aug 11, 2022
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Hi,

I am looking to purchase a Crucial X8 SSD 2 TB for my Macbook Pro M2 Max mostly to use as a gaming drive as well as for a Time Machine Backup. I use Steam to purchase games and prefer to put the games on the drive to free up space. I wanted to know what is the best format for the drive and can I store games and do a Time Machine backup on the same format or does the drive need to be partitioned for both tasks? I have a 1 TB SSD on the Mac but since most games these days are so large I prefer to use the computer's SSD for other files.

Thank you
 
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