Best hard drive format for photos on external SSD?

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Matt N

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I just picked up two Samsung T7 Shield 4TB drives.
  • My plan is to take them on trips with me and use them as redundant drives to store my photos until I get home.
  • I have a MacBook Pro M1 laptop.
  • It's possible that at some point I will store the lightroom catalog on them and use one as the primary location for my photos for editing, but initially it will just be to store the photos until I narrow them down and I work on them from my internal drive.
  • I don't ever plan to use them on a Windows PC....just my mac.
What's the best file system to format as? APFS?
Any other tips to get me started with them?
 
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I am by no means an expert on this but I just redid my computer setup and had to reformat a couple drives. I think I was told APFS was better because it works better with some backup programs.

Someone who knows more than I do will undoubtedly speak up here.
 
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Matt N said:
I just picked up two Samsung T7 Shield 4TB drives.
  • My plan is to take them on trips with me and use them as redundant drives to store my photos until I get home.
  • I have a MacBook Pro M1 laptop.
  • It's possible that at some point I will store the lightroom catalog on them and use one as the primary location for my photos for editing, but initially it will just be to store the photos until I narrow them down and I work on them from my internal drive.
  • I don't ever plan to use them on a Windows PC....just my mac.
What's the best file system to format as? APFS?
Any other tips to get me started with them?
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Definitely APFS if you are using a Mac with a SSD.
 
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