Apple's computers are available with a generous amount of hard drive space, from 256 GB all the way to 8 TB on high-end models. While that may be plenty of space for most users, video editing, ...

For those who use both Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS, having a single external hard drive that is compatible with both operating systems could be very beneficial. The problem with this is that by ...

Most external hard drives come formatted with the FAT file system, which makes the drive compatible with multiple operating systems. As such, the drive is immediately usable out of the box. If you ...

You may need to format a hard drive to match your computer's operating system before you can use it. To format a hard drive in Windows, you'll use the Disk Management utility; on a Mac, you'll use ...

I just picked up some external hard drives but can't decide what to format them as. Mac OS Journaled or exFat? Is there any speed difference between the two? I assume exFAT isn't much better than ...

If you have to use a flash drive on both Macs and Windows PCs, make sure both systems can read it. Here's how to format the drive correctly. While there is a lot of interoperability between Apple's ...

Mac users relying on Time Machine went through a rough transition a few years ago when Apple migrated away from its long-used HFS+ format for encoding hard drives and SSDs to the modern, more capable, ...