People who use macOS as their primary OS, what kind of external hard drive do you use?

[mrchow19910319]

People who use macOS as their primary OS, what kind of external hard drive do you use?

Or you can post your setup here if you want. 

[Bananasplit_00]

mom uses a WD my passport drive, no clue how thats working out for her. its suposed to back up stuff after you just plug it in, or thats what she was told at least, so she pluggs it in from time to time i guess

[mrchow19910319]

Just now, Bananasplit_00 said:

mom uses a WD my passport drive, no clue how thats working out for her. its suposed to back up stuff after you just plug it in, or thats what she was told at least, so she pluggs it in from time to time i guess

that's a timemachine drive. If she set it up correctly, that's how it works.  

 

[Lemtea]

When I was primarily using a macbook I used a 1tb seagate external drive and when that ran out of space I set up a NAS which is what I use now. 

[mrchow19910319]

Just now, Lemtea said:

When I was primarily using a macbook I used a 1tb seagate external drive and when that ran out of space I set up a NAS which is what I use now. 

whats the model of that NAS??

[Lemtea]

1 minute ago, mrchow19910319 said:

whats the model of that NAS??

I actually built it myself with some parts I had lying around and it is running xpenology which essentially means it runs the synology NAS OS.

[mrchow19910319]

Just now, Lemtea said:

I actually built it myself with some parts I had lying around and it is running xpenology which essentially means it runs the synology NAS OS.

nice

[Video Beagle]

The SSD of my imacs fusion drive is slowly dying, so I defused it...I now boot from an external SSD (I think corsair) via usb3, and use the internal hdd for extra storage.  And I use a variety of drives, mainly WD, but some seagate and toshiba for various purposes, most thru USB3, but a few thru Firewire800

[mrchow19910319]

Just now, Video Beagle said:

The SSD of my imacs fusion drive is slowly dying, so I defused it...I now boot from an external SSD (I think corsair) via usb3, and use the internal hdd for extra storage.  And I use a variety of drives, mainly WD, but some seagate and toshiba for various purposes, most thru USB3, but a few thru Firewire800

imac which year?

 

[Video Beagle]

1 minute ago, mrchow19910319 said:

imac which year?

 

2012 27" i7

[duncannah]

I just put my old laptop HDD in a SATA enclosure (after an SSD upgrade), I use it to store my archives and whatnot

[yamileon]

the same ones you use on a windows machine

[jpenguin]

Just threw a 1Tb Seagate sshd I had lying aroung in a USB3 enclosure

[drppr]

I had multiple 1-2TB drives laying around from my windows days and bought NTFS for Mac to move all music and code I made to a new drive I bought, and then reformatted them and I use one of them as a Time Machine drive nowadays. I do however plan on migrating all to a file server soon so the headache might begin again soon.

[jslowik]

I went the NAS route as well for time machine backups and random other stuff. I can't bring it with me to work so it's slightly less ideal than a thunderbolt drive, but gets the job done I suppose as it's predominantly media that I wouldn't need.

 

Synology DS416.

[mrchow19910319]

16 hours ago, drppr said:

I had multiple 1-2TB drives laying around from my windows days and bought NTFS for Mac to move all music and code I made to a new drive I bought, and then reformatted them and I use one of them as a Time Machine drive nowadays. I do however plan on migrating all to a file server soon so the headache might begin again soon.

i still find that the most reliable way of storing things are good old hard drive plug and play.

 

[CrowDazzle]

Promise PegasusR6: 12TB RAID-5

Pegasus2 R2+: 8TB RAID-0 (as a Time machine backup for the Macbook Pro and the above RAID)

[bebejapes]

you can use any hard drive you like.

 

its only the format.

 

if your eco system is mac you will use a mac journaled format.

 

 

[Windows is broken]

On 2/14/2019 at 9:50 AM, mrchow19910319 said:

People who use macOS as their primary OS, what kind of external hard drive do you use?

Or you can post your setup here if you want. 

I always use a 4 TB Western Digital NAS to put my files on.

[mrchow19910319]

3 hours ago, Windows is broken said:

I always use a 4 TB Western Digital NAS to put my files on.

do you think that those thunderbolt drives are worth it??

I always felt that those drives are way too overpriced.

[Windows is broken]

On 2/20/2019 at 1:13 PM, mrchow19910319 said:

do you think that those thunderbolt drives are worth it??

I always felt that those drives are way too overpriced.

Yes,  they are a bit overpriced, but if you buy NAS you get more storage for less money than a Thunderbolt device.

I think you can buy better a NAS than a Thunderbolt device.