Q: Seagate Backup Plus 2 TB - HFS+ or NTFS
I am in the process of purchasing a Seagate Backup Plus 2 TB Portable Portable External Hard Drive. Two almost identical models are sold. On the Data Sheet provided by Seagate, I can only find one difference. Under the "What is Included" section of the Data Sheet the STDS2000100 is promoted as a "Seagate Backup Plus Slim portable drive for Mac" with the "HFS+ driver for PC" and the STDR2000101 simply says "Seagate Backup Plus Slim portable drive" but says "NTFS driver for Mac" What is the difference and does it matter which one I get to use with Time Machine to back up and restore my MacBook Pro running El Capitan?
MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11), External Drive Format
Posted on Oct 8, 2015 4:24 PM
I have the same drive. I always reformat the drive using disk utility regardless of what they say it already is (takes less than a minute)...so it doesn't matter which one you get. I also never install the drivers that come with hard drives.
Posted on Oct 8, 2015 8:04 PM