My current Time Machine drive is a 4TB HDD I've been using for...probably like a decade at this point. It's been very reliable. But being an HDD, it has the obvious downsides of noise and slowness.

Numerous users confirmed today that a pair of updates issued Wednesday by Apple Inc. now allow them to use Time Machine to back up data to external drives attached to AirPort Extreme routers — finally ...

What if something goes wrong and you need immediate access on-site to a full backup of your Mac’s startup volume or an external drive, and you need to return to work as soon as possible? The ...

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External USB/Thunderbolt SSDs and/or hard drives (aka direct-attached storage, or DAS) are a super-convenient way to add storage capacity to your system as well as back it up. External drives are also ...

As anyone who’s experienced a hard drive failure can tell you, stuff goes wrong and computers aren’t perfect. Which leads us to an eternal truth: Backing up your data is a must. And the best way to do ...