Post #2310990
2026-05-07 16:40 UTC
Need some help from #mac nerds out there. Old Time Machine drive died and just set up another. I noticed the hard drive -- not SSD -- gets very noisy during the hourly backups. Was formatting the drive as APFS probably why and Should I reformat as Mac OS Extended (Journaled)/HFS+?
Noticed my other large hard drive I use for large file storage doesn't seem as noisy in use and that was done as a HFS+ format.
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@kyle@keyboards.social 2026-05-08 12:48
@bbech@mastodon.social Wow, I never considered that one file format could be noisier. I use a scheduler for Time Machine so that it only runs in the evening when I’m not around the hear all the crunching and grinding.