Reformatting a Western Digital My Passport hard drive to function well on Windows and Macintosh systems is neither time-consuming nor technologically demanding. Back up all important information on the drive before beginning; any data left on the drive will be destroyed during the reformatting process.
Format using disk utility on any Mac such as: Macbook Pro, iMac, macbook air, laptop mac, desktop, computer apple, macbook retina display, macbook air, mac mini, Mac Pro,iMac pro macOS Sierra About Disk Utility Use Disk Utility to manage internal disks and external storage devices. You can organize and manage your data by dividing your disk into sections called partitions. Each properly formatted partition appears as a volume in the Finder, where you can store your files. You can also store files in a disk image, a single file you can use to move files from one computer to another or to back up and archive your work.
The Disk Utility window, showing an internal disk with an APFS container, an external disk, and a disk image. Disk Utility can also combine multiple hard disks into a RAID set that acts as a single disk. Using multiple hard disks in a RAID set can increase the performance, reliability, and storage capacity of your data storage system, depending on the type of set you choose.
Need to back up a ton of files or a whole lot of video? You're in luck: Best Buy is currently selling Western Digital's.
It's a great price that's well below what you'd pay for this much storage elsewhere. As you can see by the image, this is a desktop hard drive takes up a little more space than those portable external hard drives.
(Best Buy's specs say it's 6.7-inches high by 1.9 inches wide.) The drive uses USB 3.0, which is standard these days for external drives. This easystore drive is a little different from its counterparts in Western Digital's similar-looking My Book line. Exclusive to Best Buy, it appears to have a different set of included software.
Both lines have the WD Backup utility, but easystore doesn't appear to come with Acronis True Image WD Edition for cloning drives. That doesn't really matter, however, as you can just from Western Digital and it should work.
Even if it doesn't, there are many. Best Buy.