RE: External storage ideas for mac mini
I have a mac mini M1 and am getting my system set up. Since I am not doing high end video editing or music editing I can move project from my 1TB HD back to storage. I have some stuff stored on some older WD and Seagate drives. I have to admit that these drives are about or over 10 years old. Anyway, I am semi retiring my 2009 Mac Pro. I am going to keep it to run an older sound card. It has 3 drives in the other 3 bays. These drives have projects as well as music and photos.
I am looking for better ideas on how to backup and access my data.
To have access on the mini, (and even my Mac Book Pro)
- Should I transfer each drive over to SSD and allow them to remain connected via Thunderbolt?
- Or should I consider a RAID array? I have about 4TB of info. I also have an older 2TB my book live that is going on 10 years. It is holding a lot of data, time machine data and disk images for software.
- Should I consider the iCloud plus plan for my 2TB My Book Live. Would that be efficient for backing up and retrieving data very quickly?
- Would it even be better to go with 2 iCloud plans?
Mac mini 2018 or later