How to Format SSD on a MacBook. A Solid State Drive is primarily used on laptops and other lightweight devices, as its compact size proves adequate for such portable hardware units.

You might need to format an external hard drive before you can use it with your computer. We have some tips to help the process go smoothly.

I have a 4TB SSD on loan at my office (we're a flash storage company, so... toys!) and I'm trying to get it to work on macOS as an experiment. Problem is, it shows up in Disk Utility as a 1.64TB ...

Formatting an external storage drive can serve various purposes, whether it's preparing a USB drive for a fresh start, clearing out an external SSD, or adapting a hard drive for compatibility with ...

It’s possible you could force HFS+ on a boot SSD with High Sierra with some Terminal monkeying around, but I can’t see that would end well, and I’m not sure it offers any advantages.