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Need to format brand new USB hard drive, or not?

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andrzej bialuski

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Need to format brand new USB hard drive, or not?

5 months ago

Up until I never have formatted any new external USB HD before starting to use it. Just plugged it into my Imac and started using it with factory formatting.

My question is: should I format it first or just go ahead and start using it with the default factory formatting?

The new drive is a Seagate USB3, 3 TB.

thanks in advance

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