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can I just plug in my old SSD in new mac?

My new Macbook Pro Max M1 arrives in a few weeks, can I just plug in my Samsung SSD and it will work fine? or do i need to format it again?


any help appreciated

Posted on Apr 6, 2022 10:16 AM

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Posted on Apr 6, 2022 1:05 PM

Correct. macOS Extended Journaled is HFS+. You should not need to do anything, and it should just work. File system formats available in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support


Also, macOS can read and write to FAT and exFAT just fine. It's only NTFS that poses the "writing" issue. It can read from it, but cannot write to it.

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Apr 6, 2022 1:05 PM in response to kerochan

Correct. macOS Extended Journaled is HFS+. You should not need to do anything, and it should just work. File system formats available in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support


Also, macOS can read and write to FAT and exFAT just fine. It's only NTFS that poses the "writing" issue. It can read from it, but cannot write to it.

Apr 6, 2022 10:23 AM in response to kerochan

Assuming its an external SSD, it should work fine just plugging it in if its already formatted to something the Mac understands natively like HFS+, FAT, exFAT or APFS. If it is formatted as NTFS and you were using its own software to access it, then you may need to install that, or some other NTFS driver for the new Mac to be able to write to it. It should be able to read from it however without additional software.






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