Time Machine and 2TB drive, with partitions

[ivanwi11iams]

Here I was thinking I need to buy another storage device. But, say I did not have the money, what would I do then?
Well, I am wondering, I have a 2TB LaCie USB 3.0 drive. Can I:
- format my 2TB drive to exFat
- create two 1TB drive partitions
- use 1TB for Time Machine on my MBA Early 2015 (8GB memory, 256GB PCIE drive)
- use 1TB for my Windows 10 backups

Thoughts...

 

[posguy99]

Given the cost of your average external HD of 1 TB size, skip getting drunk one weekend and buy another disk. Less than $50, same-day delivery from Amazon. Pick your vendor.

 

[chabig]

You could partition the drive, but change the order or your operations:

1. Create two 1TB partitions
2. Format one of the them for Windows using EXFAT
3. Format the other one for Time Machine using HFS Extended, Journaled

I also like posguy99's suggestion.

 

[ivanwi11iams]

Thanks for the information, thus far.

To add, I do not currently intend on keeping data on this MBA (all in the cloud). So, using Time Machine is not compulsory, right? And, I can still reset to factory, or reload the OS, WITHOUT having Time Machine, no?

 

[posguy99]

Thanks for the information, thus far.

To add, I do not currently intend on keeping data on this MBA (all in the cloud). So, using Time Machine is not compulsory, right? And, I can still reset to factory, or reload the OS, WITHOUT having Time Machine, no?

Using Time Machine is never compulsory, but what in the world does keeping data "all in the cloud" have to do with making backups? Or *not* making backups, more like. Dropbox doesn't have a service guarantee. Neither does Microsoft. Google doesn't. *Github*?

Either your data is important to you, or it is not.

 

[ivanwi11iams]

Wow, and here I was just mentioning in another thread about polite and less aggressive communication.

I will resolve my backup and data needs accordingly. Thanks all...

 

[HDFan]

I do not currently intend on keeping data on this MBA (all in the cloud)

Using Time Machine is never compulsory, but what in the world does keeping data "all in the cloud" have to do with making backups?

psgouy99 is just saying that a 3-2-1 backup strategy would count a cloud backup (if it is that, not all cloud storage counts as a backup which is another discussion) as only 1 backup. There are far too many posts on this forum about people who have lost all of their data since they did not have a 3-2-1 strategy. No one wants you to lose your data.

 

[posguy99]

There are far too many posts on this forum about people who have lost all of their data since they did not have a 3-2-1 strategy. No one wants you to lose your data.

But remember, for the Entitled, it is certainly never *their* fault that they lost data.