Replacing Old External Hard Drive for Mac OS 10.6.8
Hello, I actually have two computers. One 2009 Mac Mini with Mac OS 10.6.8 and one newer intel based Mac Mini with Monterey. I have seperate external hard drives for each computer. For the old computer I was using a Fantom Drives Green Drive HDD desktop hard drive from 2009 but it recently crapped out. Fantom doesn't make any external hard drives anymore. I looked at Western Digital, Seagate, and Verbatim. Most of the new hard drives say for Mac OS 11 and up. Can they be reformatted to run on OS 10.6 extended journaled? Are self powered desktop drives more reliable than portables? Should I stick with an HDD or are SSDs just as reliable? I recently purchased a Verbatim Store 'N' Go portable HDD drive because it said for Mac OS 10.4 and up. I saved some stuff from the old computer to the Verbatim hard drive, then plugged it in the new computer and transferred them. When I plugged the Verbatim drive back into the old computer again it said "disk unreadable by this computer" which is weird because it worked fine the first time I plugged it into the old computer. If I'm gonna have this problem every time I do that I will keep the hard drives seperate for each computer and use flash drives to transfer files. Or do you think it's because Verbatim portable drives are unreliable and it failed?