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I want to get a very reliable 2.5" hdd to use in a usb enclosure for time machine backups. 

 

I'm looking for 2TB of capacity. 

 

it needs to be able to handle being moved around because I will take it with me everyday.

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I've had good experience with seagates. Though I dont bring it around with me and move it around constantly. 

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10 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

I want to get a very reliable 2.5" hdd to use in a usb enclosure for time machine backups. 

I have a lot of Seagate Barracuda drives that I use as backups and they've been more reliable that WD drives in my experience. 

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9 minutes ago, markr54632 said:

Seagate non hybrid drives. However if you are needing a drive for reliable long term backup a 2.5" mechanical drive is not really the best choice.

not really long term. it's more for it my Mac crashes or it suddenly dies and I need to buy a new one i can just restore from the backup and it's exactly like it was. 

 

and the way time machine works. it backs up every hour so if I accidentally delete a file I can just get it back as long as it was in the last backup. 

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