Hey folks,
The quick question: I'm formatting a WD MyBook to use as a Time Machine backup drive. That's the easy part for me. After looking at WD's support pages, though, I'm wondering if there's any value to doing any partitioning or at least setting the drive to a single GUID partition?
(EDIT: It's a 500GB drive, backing up the 320GB drive on the iMac)
The background: Just got my new iMac and after losing a chunk of data on my laptop due to a combination of drive failure and poor backup habits (I only backed up once or twice on the external drive I bought), I wanted to be sure to get Time Machine up and running right away.
Thanks for the help....
EDIT 2: Or not
...not wanting to wait, I just created one HFS+ formatted GUID partition. Seems to have worked just fine. All backed up. It's a nice feeling knowing there's a program doing the work.
The quick question: I'm formatting a WD MyBook to use as a Time Machine backup drive. That's the easy part for me. After looking at WD's support pages, though, I'm wondering if there's any value to doing any partitioning or at least setting the drive to a single GUID partition?
(EDIT: It's a 500GB drive, backing up the 320GB drive on the iMac)
The background: Just got my new iMac and after losing a chunk of data on my laptop due to a combination of drive failure and poor backup habits (I only backed up once or twice on the external drive I bought), I wanted to be sure to get Time Machine up and running right away.
Thanks for the help....
EDIT 2: Or not
...not wanting to wait, I just created one HFS+ formatted GUID partition. Seems to have worked just fine. All backed up. It's a nice feeling knowing there's a program doing the work.