Should i reformat My Cloud before using with my Mac?

I purchased a WD My Cloud to use with my Macbook Air. Should I reformat it first to "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" or should I just use the software that they recommend which is not in this format?

Hi Benler44,
I wrote with WD support, that said:
"Unfortunately it is not possible to format the internal drive. What you can do however, is connect an external USB drive to the device.
WD My Cloud device supports the following formats for externally attached USB drives:
 FAT32
 NTFS (read and write capability)
 HFS+J (MAC OS Extended (Journaled)
 Linux Ext2, Ext3/Ext4
 XFS
Don't know if somebody can trick it into a MAC OS extended (journaled) format, but mine is working fine with my Macs, Itunes, Sonos, Time Machine etc... Only downside is, that you cannot use it for iPhoto because of the format. All macs on the network connects fine with a connected external MAC OS extended (jour.) drive, but I haven't tried to put iPhoto on that one.
Hope this helps.

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