Startup Disc and Hard Drive Partitioning Questions

[Paint Guy]

Ok, thanks Dave. OK, I know I have asked too many questions already so I will stop soon. Just a few more so I get this right and don't screw it up. Thanks.

Q1 - Is reformatting a hard drive hard on it. Does it wear it out a little every time you reformat a drive?

On the G-Drive Website it says: "Your G-Drive external hard drive is formatted at the factory for use with Mac OS. Just plug it in and it will mount on the desktop. The G-DRIVE is formatted at the factory HFS+ with Journaling and is Time Machine ready right out of the box!"

Q2 - I plan to have the drive as "one" partition so do I need to format the drive again using "Disc Utility" or is it best to run disc utility anyways and partition the drive?


Q3 - After mounting the drive on the desktop and pressing (Option + I) here's what it said. Why has it used 240.6 MB? Is this the normal amount used when you format a drive. Seems like a lot to me.

G-Drive 1TB
Capacity: 931.19 GB
Available: 930.96 GB
Used: 240.6 MB
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