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External Back up Drive Suggestions Please
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<blockquote data-quote="IWT" data-source="post: 1639302" data-attributes="member: 83420"><p>Hi and welcome.</p><p></p><p>The first thing I would say is that no matter how little you have on your Mac, you must really get a backup strategy now. Internal and External HDs will fail sometime. Could be tonight, could be in 5 years. And, as you say, from today on, you will only be adding things.</p><p></p><p>Time Machine is the easiest to set up and understand. Guidance given if you need it. There are additional options such as cloning software (eg CCC and SuperDuper!). </p><p></p><p>As regards choice of EHD. Everyone has their favourites and my suggestion might, or might not, be applicable in all countries—I live in the UK. Anyway, for over 6 years, I've used a wide range of External storage devices from LaCie and personally never (yet) had a drive failure. Worth a look at their website perhaps.</p><p></p><p>By the way, as a general rule, your EHD should be around 1.5 to 2 times the capacity of your Mac's Internal Drive.</p><p></p><p>Hope this helps as a starter.</p><p></p><p>Ian</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IWT, post: 1639302, member: 83420"] Hi and welcome. The first thing I would say is that no matter how little you have on your Mac, you must really get a backup strategy now. Internal and External HDs will fail sometime. Could be tonight, could be in 5 years. And, as you say, from today on, you will only be adding things. Time Machine is the easiest to set up and understand. Guidance given if you need it. There are additional options such as cloning software (eg CCC and SuperDuper!). As regards choice of EHD. Everyone has their favourites and my suggestion might, or might not, be applicable in all countries—I live in the UK. Anyway, for over 6 years, I've used a wide range of External storage devices from LaCie and personally never (yet) had a drive failure. Worth a look at their website perhaps. By the way, as a general rule, your EHD should be around 1.5 to 2 times the capacity of your Mac's Internal Drive. Hope this helps as a starter. Ian [/QUOTE]
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