Mac users relying on Time Machine went through a rough transition a few years ago when Apple migrated away from its long-used HFS+ format for encoding hard drives and SSDs to the modern, more capable, ...

If you need to expand your Mac storage in a big way without breaking the bank, your best bet is with external hard drives.

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.

It is easily possible to double the cost of a new M4 Mac mini by buying Apple storage — but if you know what you're doing, you can buy external drives, and save hundreds of dollars by working off ...

Want to find a solution to back up multiple Macs in your home or office without buying dedicated hardware like network-attached storage, paying for a backup service, or needing multiple external ...

You can’t crack open most Apple computers to expand storage. These external drives can help handle large media or backups with ease. By Heather Kuldell-Ware Published Oct 13, 2023 12:00 PM EDT We may ...

In the distant past (2007 to 2011 or so) I experimented with using a number of different NAS platforms as Time Machine destinations including at that time FreeNAS as well as some commercial products ...

Time Machine, the built-in backup tool in macOS, provides a straightforward and reliable way to protect your valuable data. Whether you’re safeguarding critical work files, cherished family photos, or ...

The ThunderBay 4 will add terabytes of storage to your Mac. Photo: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac If you want the biggest and highest-capacity external hard drive, Cyber Monday is the time to buy. I ...

Apple’s Time Capsule base station put a Wi-Fi access point, a network router, and a backup drive that tied into Time Machine all in a single box. That was its downfall, too: if the drive failed or ...

Apple disbanded its router hardware team in 2016 and officially exited the business in 2018. Now in 2025, Apple is signaling that one of the last remaining benefits of its networking hardware will be ...