You can get an external hard drive instead of an SSD to save on money and to increase the capacity, but an external SSD provides you with speed and ruggedness. For hard drives, check out our top pick for thebest external hard drive for Mac. Here areAppleInsider'srecommendations for findin...
The OWC ThunderBay 4 is an example of this, in that it is a four-bay enclosure for 3.5-inch and 2.5-inch drives. Able to be filled with SSDs or hard disks, it has a heat-dissipating aluminum chassis, and is even pretested by OWC with a multi-hour burn-in test. Best large capac...
Even with the latestMacsall starting at with at least 256GB of SSD storage, that space fills up fast — and you can't upgrade it later. What you can do is add external storage, whether that's for more space or to have anemergency external boot drive. Now Apple has added a new opti...
If you've got a pair of matching 2.5-inch hard drives or SSDs kicking about, you can make a pretty fast assembly with the pair in the right enclose. We've been using the Mediasonic ProRaid enclosure with USB 3.1 type-C generation 2 connectivity privately for about a...
The drive itself can take a few forms, such as an external hard drive that connects over Thunderbolt 3, an external RAID enclosure, or more typically, an SSD or NVMe drive in a Thunderbolt 3 enclosure. The important bit is that itmust connect using Thunderbolt 3. ...
First, choose your external drive. It is in your best interest to use the fastest drive you can for this. Make sure you've copied off any data from it that you need. The drive you select can be spinning metal or an SSD, but inexpensive flash drives are a bad idea. ...
SanDisk's Professional G-Drive is a high-capacity external drive for your Mac, with surprising access speeds for a non-SSD storage appliance.
mini, going from 256GB storage to 1TB adds $400 to the cost. The OWC miniStack STX retails for $300, and adding 1TB of (slower than Apple's internal) SSD space for about $90 these days, brings it right up to that 1TB, plus you still have the 256GB internal...
the user account settings. It helps a lot with undersized boot drives (or SSDs) which then only need to store the applications you install and the OS itself. An external 5TB Seagate portable drive helps bring back an under-equipped Mac mini very nicely. Its worked fine like this for ...
AppleInsiderhas been in possession of the kit for all of two hours at this point, but we can confirm that not only does the kit work on a 2016 MacBook Pro on Thunderbolt 3, but also on a 2015 MacBook Pro through Apple's Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter. ...