To ensure failsafe operation, testing for bad sectors before storage (using WD utility or any other HDD inspection software like HD. There are two separate versions listed on the Seagate site, one for macOS 10.10 to 10.15, and another for the Macs running an Apple silicon chip. Now I am having a lot WD drives so I thought to give a latest Seagate drive a try too, so I bought the latest Seagate expansion portable 1 TB portable drive and got 931 GB of usable space inside. Or, if you bought an external hard drive from Seagate, it should come with Paragon Driver to let you read and write data interchangeably on Windows and Mac without formatting the drive. You can use a third-party app to write to an NTFS disk on a Mac. As a consequence, you won’t be able to add, change, or delete files. On macOS, you can only read disks in this format, not write to them. Is your external hard drive showing up as “read only” on your Mac? This usually happens because the drive is formatted with Microsoft’s NTFS file format. It can be used to measure the drives performance, scan for errors, check the health status. Here’s a guide to macOS disk permissions to help you understand the technical concepts. HD Tune Pro is a hard disk / SSD utility with many functions.
This lets you set the permissions to Read & Write to yourself while keeping the read-only for other users. Official tool for owners of Seagate disk drives which can tweak settings, format the drive. If this is a drive you formatted yourself, you can change the individual permissions in the box above. Diagnostic tool, for both Seagate and non-Seagata drives. You won’t see this option if the external storage is used as a boot drive or a Time Machine backup drive.
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