Downloading NTFS driver?

[usonian]

2. I just get mac-formatted drives and no need to format or load drivers. Simple is beautiful.

One thing to about. (added)

Time Machine has been known to fail in odd ways. I don't have examples in my memory, but adding another software layer to the backup could be asking for trouble. I definitely would keep TM hardware and software as vanilla as possible. The disk wrapper may say TM-compatible or APFS (1) compatible

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NTFS may be more compatible with windows and perhaps linux, but who sneakernet's any more?

When I go linux, it's an excuse to copy over only the important stuff. One or more macs can file-serve it forever if needed.

That's actually a serious consideration. It may be the best way to force some house-cleaning and organization --- that is, of pictures and book scattered all over and duplicated.

Just my two cents worth.

(1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_File_System

Apple switched file systems transparently "under the covers" a while back. It went very smoothly, AFAICT.