I want to format an external drive if I use it as a backup he wipe my drive hard mac

I want to format an external drive of 3 TB of Samsung, will erase my hard drive on my mac and store all my Mac hard disk?

If you format an external drive which should have absolutely no effect in the internal disk drive.

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