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Need some help with picking a time machine drive (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Inadover@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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So I have been thinking about buying a couple of drives for different purposes (seagate hdd for photo backup, a Samsung T7 shield for general storage) and now the only one that's left is a time machine drive for my 1TB Macbook. So a 2TB drive given the 2x sizing rule.

I'm unsure about which one to buy for this purpose. I'm 80% on getting an SSD for the extra durability. I don't intend to bring it to many travels with me (I don't travel all that much with my MB to begin with), so there's a case for getting an HDD instead.

The primary option is another T7 Shield, the cheapest one (blue) costing 149€ here.

For some cheaper options I have are:

Corsair EX100U (127€)
Kioxia Exceria Plus Portable (99€)
Crucial X6 (102€).

Since speed doesn't matter all that much, I guess that being the top performer isn't the primary focus (though it may be useful if I repurpose it at some point), but I do want to get a quality SSD to avoid issues like what I've seen regarding the disaster that the Sandisk Extreme Portable (119€ btw) seemed to be.

Any feedback on this? Thanks!

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[–] doodlebro@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

IMO you should care more about availability and architecture than what individual drives you want to buy. One backup is no backups.

[–] sallysaunderses@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Get one large enough that you can backup the other drives also. By default it will exclude externals so just remove them from the list. Once you decide on the size, choose based on price, speed won’t really matter within reason.