As long as you manually eject (and wait for it to eject before removing it), you should be fine. You can easily test this many, many, many times. Always have a backup ready.
Look like it's time to get a new laptop.
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I know the Mac formatting is different than Windows. mainly use Windows .. haven't used an external drive (other than a USB flash) on my Mac so not sure of its idiosyncrasies.