Network Hard drive question

[paulmac]

So i bought myself a western digital mybook world edition 1tb network hard drive yesterday and got it working with time machine on my macbook. I was just thinking today should i have formatted it or anything before i used it? it will how it came in the box be fine?

[bartboy]

Should be fine as long as the macbook is reading it fine. The only time that you would need to format it is if it was formatted in a non-mac format.

[padi_04]

So i bought myself a western digital mybook world edition 1tb network hard drive yesterday and got it working with time machine on my macbook. I was just thinking today should i have formatted it or anything before i used it? it will how it came in the box be fine?

Time Machine should have format it to HTF+

[mostapha]

You should have formatted it to a journaled file system for reasons that don't matter if you don't already know why. It matters less if it's a backup drive and more if it's not connected to consistent power.

[paulmac]

i think it says journaled on the file of the back up it has made im sure it has in the time machine, anyhows its working fine cheers fellas