Best External Drive (& method) for Macbook Backup?
I have been reading through the sub trying to understand a few things.
why SSDs have skyrocketed price wise
the best way to backup my mac
how to set up for automatic backup
I think Iunderstand how timemachine works but when I looked into this like 4 years ago I think I was advised that there are a lot of limits to TM (correct me if I am wrong). Something about "taking an image" of my HD was better -- if I recall correctly.
I have never set up a RAID. I am not opposed to it but honestly I am not sure what setup is best for me. I want to prioritize dependability and ease of use. I dont need speed per se but I dont want something that cloggs my workflow. I am only saving things like spreadsheets and documents, family photos/videos.
I would prefer to have the system backup itself if thats an option rather than I have to remind myself to do it manually, regularly. If thats an option
My air is 500 GB and is a 2020 build (m1?). Recently my mac told me it was full and having trouble running various programs and I have offloaded some things (mainly the downloads folder) onto my apple cloud.
I have the apple cloud 2TB backup right now and I save most of my photos and docs on that through my finder/folder on my mac. I think 1.4 is being used but I need to go through that and remove some of the redundancy/duplicates.
I have an iphone 17 pro with 1 TB (I got tired of running out of memory)
I was looking at these two -- not sure whats best for my needs
SSD - https://www.newegg.com/crucial-x10-2tb-usb-3-2-gen-2x2/p/N82E16820156439
HHD - https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Portable-External-Hard-Drive/dp/B07CRG94G3?th=1