I bought recently an IMac and I would like to purchase an external hard drive to back it up.
2 suggestions, if possible:
what brand would you recommend?
iMac has a storage of 1TB, shall I buy an hard drive with same capacity or more i.e. 2TB?
thank you all in advance.
Any reputable brand will work (Just don't use/install any preloaded software on the drives. That usually isn't needed and sometimes causes performance problems).
If you are using TimeMachine the backup drive should be at least 2-3x as large as the drive being backed up so it can save a history of incremental changes rather than only the latest copy.
Any reputable brand will work (Just don't use/install any preloaded software on the drives. That usually isn't needed and sometimes causes performance problems).
If you are using TimeMachine the backup drive should be at least 2-3x as large as the drive being backed up so it can save a history of incremental changes rather than only the latest copy.
Most experienced users on these forums would recommend an OWC Mercury Elite Pro. These are available in a variety of capacities, and the general rule of thumb is 2-3 times the capacity of the drive(s) you will be backing up. For example:
https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/ME3QH7T2.0/
If you are outside of the USA, their resellers and distributors are listed in OWC International Resellers
Thank you so much, so Verbatim or Western Digital should be ok? So you would suggest a minimum of 2/3TB as my iMac is 1TB, right? Sorry probs sound daft... thanks
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