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My IMac (mid 2014) has thunderbolt ports and standard usb ports. When backing up to a hard drive, must i use a hard drive with a thunderbolt connection or can I use standard usb connection?
What external hard drives would be best for compatibility?
Thanks.
iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.14
For backups I use rotating hard drives and USB cables. No need to get expensive Thunderbolt drives for backups like Time Machine.
For backups I use rotating hard drives and USB cables. No need to get expensive Thunderbolt drives for backups like Time Machine.
I recommend the OWC Mercury Elite Pro drives as they are very reliable and are backed with great customer support and warranties. And they are reasonably priced. I have a 6 TB model to backup my 2.5 GB on multiple drives - one should have a drive about 2-3 times the size of what they are backing up.
Thank you for your quick. I certainly don't want to spend money unnecessarily.
IMac (mid 2014) external hard drive compatibility
