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Need help choosing right formatting options for Samsung T7 SSD to use with M2 Macbook air macOS Ventura 13.4

I have 2 new Samsung PSSD T7 touch media SSDS that I want to use with my M2 MacBook macOS Ventura 13.4.


I need to erase and reformat the SSDs.

Do I need to Choose

A. Samsung PSSD T7 Touch Media or

B. T7 Touch


When I go to disk utility which format do I choose - I only have two choices

A. Mac Os Extended (Journaled) or

B. Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive journaled)


Which Scheme

A. GUID Partition Map

B. Master Boot record

C.. Apple Partition Map


Thanks so much for your help.

ppgnho


PS Costco has these 2TB on sale for $129.99 thru 6-11-2023. $60.00 off


MacBook Air (M2, 2022)

Posted on Jun 4, 2023 1:29 PM

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Posted on Jun 4, 2023 1:46 PM

APFS or APFS encrypted is the preferred format for Time Machine and for Photos (but they do still support MacOS Extended Journaled). I would use APFS.


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Need help choosing right formatting options for Samsung T7 SSD to use with M2 Macbook air macOS Ventura 13.4

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