The only catches are you need a hard drive or two and must remember to physically connect an external drive to your Mac.
Time Machine is a tried-and-true macOS backup solution. But just what hard drives should you pair with macOS' integrated backup app? Here's how to select the best backup disk for your needs. Based on this thread, I’m assuming I couldn’t go wrong with either?Īlso, the Mac Mini will always be on and the external drive always plugged in and on.Time Machine backups are a reliable option for backing up your Mac. I’m considering either the G-Technology G-Drive USB C 8TB drive or an OWC Mercury Pro Enclosure with a 6TB WD Blue drive. The internal drive and the misc storage partition will be backed up via Backblaze.
Misc storage partition (rest of the drive space) - this would house backups of various Synology folders, clone of my wife’s windows laptop, misc archived storage, etc. Time Machine partition (between 1 and 1.5TB). I plan on getting an external harddrive for various types of backups, with the following planned (though not final) setup. To replace my aging mid-2011 Macbook Air, I’m going to be getting a new Mac Mini in the spring with 512GB internal SSD. Certifying takes days, but it’s worth it to potentially avoid hassle down the road. If there’s a problem, you know about it before you’ve put back up data on it. I use SoftRAID’s “certify” mode: it writes data to all the sectors of a disk, multiple times. Of course, the problem here is that past performance is not necessarily an indication of future performance, and anyway Hitatchi’s drive business was bought by Western Digital, and they’re phasing out that brand.Īnother way to ask your question therefore might be “what’s the best/cheapest way to get 3-2-1 coverage for my data?” In my case, I bought some WD easystores when they were on sale (10 TB for $162 … crazy) not because I love the drive/enclosure, but because with multiples I can “spread the risk” of one particular drive failing.įinally, I think it’s a good idea that no matter what drive(s) you buy, you test them out. Over time in interpreting their data I settled on HGST drives. But to answer your question, you might have a look at e.g, Backblaze’s HD longevity stats. IF you have 3 copies of your data, the “best external HD” make becomes less important. Maybe consider, in addition to your cloud back up, 1) a “clone” of your primary drive, and 2) a time-machine back up of all your data. Do a search for 3-2-1 backup strategies it is arguably the minimum belt-and-suspenders strategy for back ups.
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