Time Machine external hard drive

It does not make sense to partition your backup drive to store more data there. Buy an additional drive, and do not compromise your backups with storing data on the same drive.

A 2TB rotating magnetic drive can be had for about US$50, plus a toaster style holder for about US$40.

rw2001 wrote:

can I partition the Time Machine external drive in order to store Logic Pro files there?

Not recommended.

Time Machine does best on a dedicated drive

Format Time Machine Disk:

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/types-of-disks-you-can-use-with-time-machine-mh15139/mac

here is a popular site of a Mac-centric vendor. The enclosures they sell tends to "just work" on your Mac:

https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/hard-drives/External-Enclosures#drive-configuration:single-bay,interface-ports:usb-3-0-usb-3-1-gen-1,drive-type:3-5-inch-drives

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