WD MyBook Properly Formatted?

I just connected today (via firewire) a 500GB WD MyBook to my iMac to use as an external drive for Time Machine. There was already data on the drive that was no longer needed. When the WD was first connected, it was immediately recognized by my iMac. I indicated that it was to serve as a backup drive via Time Machine. I was also asked to erase the existing data/drive --- to which I indicated yes. Presumably the erase process proceeded without any hitch and the Time Machine started its first backup at about 1.5GB/min.
My question is: Should I assume that the WD MyBook was properly formatted? At no time was I asked to reformat as Mac OS Extended? Was this automatically performed during the erase process?

Why assume when you can know for sure? Select the Time Machine volume in the Finder, type the letter i (eye) while holding down the Command key, & read the format from the "Get Info" window that pops up.
To be sure everything is as recommended go one step further & open Disk Utility & select the parent drive of the TM volume from the list on the left (the TM volume name is indented under it) look at the bottom of the window. The last line of text there will tell you the partition map scheme of the drive. For a drive used only with Intel Macs, this should be "GUID Partition Table." Otherwise, it should be "Apple Partition Map." It should not be "Master Boot Record."

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