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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1636812" data-attributes="member: 24160">The general recommendation would be to format the drive yourself into 2 partitions - use one for your TM backups and the other for general storage.  You must realize that anything you place in that general storage area that is not on your internal drive is not backed up unless you're using another drive to back up that data.I did test an external drive I used for TM when it was initially released and kept TM backups for 2 machines and general data storage (movies, some of my Windows misc data I could afford to lose, etc.) on a single partition.  It ran flawlessly for about 6 years until the hard drive itself died.</blockquote>