I have a 2 TB “Archives” external drive with four 500 GB partitions (Archives-Aperture-iTunes-Temp). The Archives partition has run out of room.
I have a 2 TB “Archives Backup” external drive with the same partitions. I backup the “Archives” drive partitions to the “Archives backup” drive using SuperDuper for each partition.
My Archives partition on the "Archives Backup" drive has run out of room (this is the only partition I use regularly as I off load my teaching/art projects onto it).
I bought a new 4 TB drive figuring this will be my new “Archives” drive with 4 partitions and the other two old 2 TB drives could become backup drives (one for Archives, and one for Aperture-iTunes-Temp). Eventually I‘ll buy another 4 TB drive but I am feeling cheap this month.
I'm confused about whether I can/should format an external drive with APFS? This drive is a mechanical drive, not solid state. Should I just use partitions as I have in the past on the new 4 TB drive? I’ve never used APFS before.
I don’t use Time Machine. I backup my iMac to an external drive with CCC. I'm on Catalina.
Thanks for any help!
I have a 2 TB “Archives Backup” external drive with the same partitions. I backup the “Archives” drive partitions to the “Archives backup” drive using SuperDuper for each partition.
My Archives partition on the "Archives Backup" drive has run out of room (this is the only partition I use regularly as I off load my teaching/art projects onto it).
I bought a new 4 TB drive figuring this will be my new “Archives” drive with 4 partitions and the other two old 2 TB drives could become backup drives (one for Archives, and one for Aperture-iTunes-Temp). Eventually I‘ll buy another 4 TB drive but I am feeling cheap this month.
I'm confused about whether I can/should format an external drive with APFS? This drive is a mechanical drive, not solid state. Should I just use partitions as I have in the past on the new 4 TB drive? I’ve never used APFS before.
I don’t use Time Machine. I backup my iMac to an external drive with CCC. I'm on Catalina.
Thanks for any help!
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