Trey

Bought a gargantuan (18 TB!) desktop HDD to be a Time Machine backup for both my internal and overflow external SSD. I’m all in.

I came to this after buying an external drive to make a "bootable" backup of my MBP internal drive using “SuperDuper!” and realizing that doing that is SLOOOOW and possibly pointless. I then realized you can use a single Time Machine on multiple drives. 🤯

Time Machine. What a sleeper hit! Nobody talks about it, but it just keeps on kicking ass after all these years.

Mar 27, 2024 at 1:06amWeb
Show threadTreyMar 27, 2024

It seems like the power button on this thing (HD Elements) may not actually do anything. If so, I may shuck this thing and put it in a cheap enclosure I have sitting around.

The button was a selling point to me. I have it plugged into a hub that I use on personal and work machines. I want it to be powered off when I have my work machine connected.

Show threadKeith TaylorMar 27, 2024
@trey I use Backblaze for online backups, Time Machine, and Carbon Copy Cloner for off-site storage backups. Over the years I've had to rely on all of them at some point and they've never let me down.