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Select your external hard drive or USB flash drive from the list on the left.Launch Disk Utility (Applications > Utilities).

Format a drive using Disk Utility on a Mac If you know you’ll be using computers running updated versions of these operating systems, exFAT is the clear best choice. Any Mac running 10.6.5 (Snow Leopard) or 10.7 (Lion) supports exFAT, while PCs running Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista SP1, and Windows 7 are compatible. Awesome, it’s perfect! Almost… since exFAT is fairly new, it isn’t compatible with older Macs and PCs. The exFAT file system eliminates the two major deficiencies of FAT32: the largest partition and file sizes it supports are virtually unlimited by today’s standards. Use the link to the article and use the Table of Contents to drop down to the. Then you can read this how to use article to connect your Samsung T5 to Time Machine. Follow the steps 1 to 6 above and you’ll do that.

Using your Samsung T5 for Time Machine means you have to change the as sold formatting from ExFAT to Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

150GB Mac OSX partition (currently running Mavericks) 150GB Windows 8.1 partition (via Bootcamp) 200GB data parition (formatted with ExFAT) I chose an ExFAT partition so I could read and write to the data partition from either the OSX or the Windows partition as I use each operating system.

Essentially, it's a file system that's both readable and writable on any modern Mac or Windows machine (sorry, Leopard users). ExFAT has been around for awhile, but we've never really talked about it. Time Machine can only back up volumes formatted either as HFS+ or the newer APFS format. Time Machine volumes must be HFS+ formatted, listed in Disk Utility as “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”.