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1TB External Hard Drive for Time Machine Back up?
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1844840" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Which one is reliable is a "religious" question for which there are as many answers at there are drives. I like WD, others hate them. As for the size of the drive, generally TM should be on a drive twice as big as the data it is backing up. So if your drive has, let's say, 360GB of data, that 1TB will do nicely. If it's 750GB of data, that would be a bit tight and you'll find it running out of space sooner. As I said, about double what you have on the source is a good estimate. NOTE: Not double the drive size, but the data on the drive. You aren't backing up empty space...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1844840, member: 396914"] Which one is reliable is a "religious" question for which there are as many answers at there are drives. I like WD, others hate them. As for the size of the drive, generally TM should be on a drive twice as big as the data it is backing up. So if your drive has, let's say, 360GB of data, that 1TB will do nicely. If it's 750GB of data, that would be a bit tight and you'll find it running out of space sooner. As I said, about double what you have on the source is a good estimate. NOTE: Not double the drive size, but the data on the drive. You aren't backing up empty space... [/QUOTE]
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