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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1882362" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Randy, I use CCC, but have used SD! in the past, so I agree that both are good products. My only thought now is that given the SoC approach, the need for a bootable external backup is greatly diminished. As I said, if the storage area fails, the logic board has to be replaced, not just the drive, so even if Apple lets an external drive boot an M1 system, the probability you could actually use that feature is pretty small. If, indeed, any of the storage on the SoC can be used as RAM, or SSD, or scratch, or system space an any time, then a failure of any is a failure of all.  We will see as failures start to show up how useful or useable a bootable backup may be.</p></blockquote><p></p>