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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1932483" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>Mike Bombich is the developer of Carbon Copy Cloner, a very popular backup cloning software program. So he has a boatload of experience as to which hard drives are good and which aren't.</p><p></p><p>He has a very helpful page dishing on both:</p><p><a href="https://bombich.com/kb/ccc6/choosing-backup-drive" target="_blank">https://bombich.com/kb/ccc6/choosing-backup-drive</a></p><p></p><p>At this point, I think that all external drives should be SSD's, for performance and compatibility with APFS reasons. Especially drives used for backup.</p><p></p><p>I personally prefer to put together my own external SSD's, but I know that isn't a lot of people's cup of tea. So, this ready to use SSD is a decent compromise of performance and price, but only middling longevity unless you get it in a size that is at least twice what you might ever need:</p><p></p><p>Samsung T7, 1TB Portable SSD, up to 1050MB/s, USB 3.2 Gen2</p><p>$85</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0874YJP92" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0874YJP92</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1932483, member: 190607"] Mike Bombich is the developer of Carbon Copy Cloner, a very popular backup cloning software program. So he has a boatload of experience as to which hard drives are good and which aren't. He has a very helpful page dishing on both: [URL code="true"]https://bombich.com/kb/ccc6/choosing-backup-drive[/URL] At this point, I think that all external drives should be SSD's, for performance and compatibility with APFS reasons. Especially drives used for backup. I personally prefer to put together my own external SSD's, but I know that isn't a lot of people's cup of tea. So, this ready to use SSD is a decent compromise of performance and price, but only middling longevity unless you get it in a size that is at least twice what you might ever need: Samsung T7, 1TB Portable SSD, up to 1050MB/s, USB 3.2 Gen2 $85 [URL code="true"]https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0874YJP92[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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