I'm going to have a Macbook Pro soon, I'm waiting for the 2018 models to arrive to my area.
I'm planning to connect a 8T 7200 RPM external hard drive to my Macbook Pro.
This hard drive will be connected to my MacBook Pro permanently, and I will put there most of my media files, and maybe even run some programs from there.
Few questions:
1. For spinning hard drive, what file system is better: HFS+ or APFS(I don't want to use exFAT because I want the most reliable file system)?
2. If APFS is the better choice, how am I going to transfer all my files from my current PC to the external hard drive? there are only beta version softwares of "APFS for windows" (Paragon and Macdrive).
3. If I'm going with HFS+ should I be afraid that this file system will be abandoned soon by Apple?
4. Is there any reliability issues I should afraid of, about using external hard drive along with a MacBook Pro, considering that I want to use it permanently like it was an internal drive(the hard drive I'm thinking to get has Thunderbolt interface and USB3 interface)?
5. Will a 7200RPM USB3 external Hard Drive be slower than a PC 7200RPM SATA III internal hard drive(that's what I have now in my PC)?
6. How can I protect an external hard drive that powered by external power supply from power outage possible damage(I wish there were UPS devices for external hard drives)?
7. Sometimes I'll have to connect another storage device breifly for data transfer(disk on key or another hard drive or SSD), is there any issue with connecting multiple external storage devices to MacBook Pro?
Thanks in advance.
I'm planning to connect a 8T 7200 RPM external hard drive to my Macbook Pro.
This hard drive will be connected to my MacBook Pro permanently, and I will put there most of my media files, and maybe even run some programs from there.
Few questions:
1. For spinning hard drive, what file system is better: HFS+ or APFS(I don't want to use exFAT because I want the most reliable file system)?
2. If APFS is the better choice, how am I going to transfer all my files from my current PC to the external hard drive? there are only beta version softwares of "APFS for windows" (Paragon and Macdrive).
3. If I'm going with HFS+ should I be afraid that this file system will be abandoned soon by Apple?
4. Is there any reliability issues I should afraid of, about using external hard drive along with a MacBook Pro, considering that I want to use it permanently like it was an internal drive(the hard drive I'm thinking to get has Thunderbolt interface and USB3 interface)?
5. Will a 7200RPM USB3 external Hard Drive be slower than a PC 7200RPM SATA III internal hard drive(that's what I have now in my PC)?
6. How can I protect an external hard drive that powered by external power supply from power outage possible damage(I wish there were UPS devices for external hard drives)?
7. Sometimes I'll have to connect another storage device breifly for data transfer(disk on key or another hard drive or SSD), is there any issue with connecting multiple external storage devices to MacBook Pro?
Thanks in advance.