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1. WHEN REFORMATTING SAMSUNG T5 SSD WHAT FORMAT FOR MAC MAC OS
2. WHEN REFORMATTING SAMSUNG T5 SSD WHAT FORMAT FOR MAC INSTALL

If I did and could have remembered, I'd have formatted this new T5 as NTFS. The Samsung T7 comes with a USB C cable plug. Now if you’re on a Mac with limited USB C ports you should be fine. And you’ll want your Mac plugged into a power outlet. I generally don't think far enough ahead to check the partition format of new media before using it. You’ll need to sign into your Mac and plug in your Samsung SSD T7.

My initial observation of these SanDisk SSDs, was amazement how small they are. I don't intend to make this T5 bootable, if that's possible/allowed by my BIOS. You can drag and drop your documents, photos, videos. That’s because your Mac can read and write to an ExFAT file system. And your Mac can put your files onto your Samsung T5. This file system formatting mean’s that your Mac can read the files on your T5. Scroll to select, Convert to APFS to complete the formatting to APFS. When you buy your Samsung T5 it comes with an ExFAT file system. This pops-up a drop-down menu where “Convert to APFS…” can be selected at bottom of menu. Then for Step 7’s 2d erase, right-click (or, option-click) on “Untitled” that’s the secondary (lower) drive in the hierarchy view. Click Apply to commit the pending operation. Next, you can choose exFAT or NTFS as the target file system. Right-click the SSD drive and choose Format Partition.

WHEN REFORMATTING SAMSUNG T5 SSD WHAT FORMAT FOR MAC INSTALL

This is the correct selection for the 1st erase. Free download, install and run AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard. When the SanDisk SSD is first mounted (drive viewed in the side pane of Disk Utility), Step 4 requires selection of top most (called “main” in the instructions) in the drive hierarchy (entitled: SanDisk Extrem…). All of my sample libraries were previous stored on my internal SSD. External SSD is now quick and functioning perfectly.-I recently purchased a Samsung T3 500gb SSD to store my sample libraries when I am running Logic.

WHEN REFORMATTING SAMSUNG T5 SSD WHAT FORMAT FOR MAC MAC OS

Note: the link’s convert (to APFS) instructions are a bit dated, as they’re for macOS 10.13 High Sierra I’m using 10.14.x Mojave and my notes below reflect Disk Utility in Mojave. Erased everything and formatted the drive to Mac OS (Journaled). The converting process, which can be viewed at the link in my initial post, is fairly straight forward but, I’ll clarify several steps. My MacBook Pro has Thunderbolt 3 ports so, I connected the SanDisk SSDs, using TB3 cables (.5m) with USB-C type connectors, for best transmission speed. …I’m prepping these two SSDs for macOS Catalina, which will require APFS for cloning (and, possibly Time Machine - if not, I’ll convert that SSD back to Mac OS Extended - Journaled). …And, I’ve also completed converting the formatting to macOS APFS. I’ve now purchased 2 x 2TB Extreme Portable SSD USB-C Gen-2 external drives.