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- One of the big considerations about hard drives and the accessibility of their data is the format that they are set-up with in the beginning. There are two major operating systems in the world. Macintosh and Windows. We'll go with the Mac first. And no preference at all. I'm just doing it alphabetically. So the Mac, the current Mac format is called HFS plus. That's hierarchical file system plus. It's been around a long time. It's a Mac-only format. And there is third-party software available to run on Windows if you need to read an HFS drive on Windows. Although it's not recommended 'cause it is kind of slow. Now HFS plus was introduced with Mac OS 8.1 in 1998. Currently we're on OSX 10.13. That is, those are two entirely different operating systems. So they have been able to keep the HFS format going for almost 30 years. It was originally introduced with the original Macintosh which made its debut in January of 1984. Mac OS X 10.7 added logical volume encryption. Apple calls it…

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