NTFS drive—should I reformat it?
I bought a Western Digital external 5TB drive to use for storage. I'd like to move my Photos system library to it. I installed the new drive today, and it's nagging me about installing "NTFS for Mac.app". I've done a little reading in the community, and I understand this app allows Windows on a Mac to write to the drive. Well, I do have Windows 11 running (Parallels), but I mostly want to use the drive for storage on the Mac side. What should I do? I have this notion that I can simply reformat the drive, but I thought I should first ask for suggestions.
I read yesterday that if I want to move my Photos system library to an external drive, that drive must be formatted as "either APFS format or Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format." As I interpret that advice from Apple Support, it seems I should just erase and reformat this new drive—that is, just dump all the software that WD so kindly installed on the drive and start fresh.
Agree ... ?
MacBook Pro (M2 Pro, 2023)