When you select a drive as the time machine backup destination volume will always display the time machine icon and cannot be modified.
Lacie rugged time machine.
Windows cannot natively read or write to hfs journaled volumes.
Store and access photos movies music and documents for years to come with up to 4 tb of huge capacity.
Apple has changed the behavior of time machine in mac os 10 9 4.
Lacie rugged usb c is a powerful trusted external hard drive for mac and windows computers.
Apfs apple file system an apple file system optimized for solid state drives ssds and flash based storage systems.
This is the best format if you intend to use lacie rugged raid shuttle with time machine.
No that is not enough.
You have to either designate the hard drive as a time machine backup drive and tell let time machine to do routine backups or copy not move your data folder into the new hard drive.
I was able to back up onto this drive using superduper and connecting via usb.
See time machine icon below.
Select the version optimized for your use.
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Performance capacity or compatibility or all three.
Once time machine is enabled open the time machine preference pane on your mac choose change disk and select your newly created time machine folder on the network drive.
Quickly and easily connect to the latest laptops and pcs using rugged s reversible usb c cable or the included usb 3 0 adapter for legacy usb 3 0 devices.
Note about time machine.
From the list of storage devices in the middle of the disk management window locate your lacie device.
Lacie usb 3 0 drive is the perfect complement to mac computers and pairs with time machine for automatic computer backups.
Go to search and then type diskmgmt msc in the search results double click disk management.
Make sure the storage device is connected to and mounted on the computer.
The lacie rugged usb c portable drive combines rugged durability and cutting edge usb c connectivity with impressive capacity.
While you can format your hard disk drive hdd in apfs performance.
I was able to make a time machine backup onto a different seagate drive using usb.
If you reformat or erase your external hard drive in windows the disk icon may change to the generic icon.
Time machine will eventually ask for login credential if the functionality was enabled on a private share.
Choose from thunderbolt usb c usb 3 0 and firewire 800.