Once you’re done, you’ll have multiple partitions that you can work with.
This will reformat your drive without the partition.Īnd that’s it. To remove partitions - Go back into the partition screen, select the partition you want to be removed, and hit the – (minus) button.Make sure you backup or remove any important data before partitioning. Note - Partitioning a drive will also reformat the drive.Disk Utility divides the space in half by default. The slider button is just above the +/- buttons. Using the slider on the pie graphic, change the size until your partition is as big as you want it.Sometimes, using other formats will mess up your hard drive. It is very strongly recommended to use APFS. Give your new partition a name, and then select the format.
In the pop-up, the utility asks if you want to create a whole partition or just an extra volume. Next, click the + (plus) button underneath the pie graphic to create a new partition. On the next screen, click the Format box and switch it to APFS. At the top of the screen, click the Partition button. Select your external hard drive on the left margin. Double-click Disk Utility when it pops up. Open Finder and type Disk Utility into the search bar. You can use other formats, but it gets a little wonky. Connect the drive you want to partition. A USB-C or Thunderbolt drive natively works better with APFS.Also, if you do intend on using your external hard drive to boot Windows, Apple strongly recommends using Boot Camp to partition the drive instead of the Disk Utility feature. a USB 3.1/2 drive via USB-A is best served using HFS+. I also deal with music artist and there we often go with a 2TB blade SSD as the nature of composing works better with the instrumental elements on the faster drive.Įxternal drives are dependent on the interface they are using. As such most students opt for a 512 GB blade drive and the pro’s go with a 1TB. The video students and pro’s I deal with can’t have projects lost from drive failures and the performance of their system much be at its optimum. It also makes sense from a I/O perspective as it won’t be the bottleneck of the data flows, the I/O is still limited to the drives ability to read or write the data. So using the PCIe/NVMe interfaced drive is the better from an APFS stand point. So lets say you decide to use the SATA port drive as the boot drive it has its own issues when using APFS as APFS is a chatty protocol so the limited buffers within SATA can mess you up! Often people encounter hanged systems (frozen). Monterey as well as the older macOS’s from Mojave onwards require APFS for the boot drive so if this drive will be the boot drive then you have no options APFS will be used. Using a M.2 SSD is risky! The signal lines for housecleaning and sleep are not present within the adapter or carried into the SSD so you run the risk of corruption! It makes no different which format the SSD has.
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