Best External Hard Drive For Macbook Air 2019

This cable is used with the external hard drive that backs up my MacBook Pro.

I use this to back up the hard drive on my 2019 MacBook Pro and it just works... Perfect in both size and capacity....

Best dongle to connect your macbook pro to external hard drives.

For several years I have been using the small Samsung USB-C external drives (almost credit-card sized) -- I used two 500GB and one 1TB drives along with Carbon Copy Cloner and my MacBook Air. That worked well (although the 1TB became corrupted and unusable about 3 months ago) and I would especially back up the drive before any flight and separate the drive from my laptop at TSA. I just upgraded to a (wonderful!) MacBook Pro 14 and attempted a Migration Assistant transfer from the Air using a fresh Samsung backup. I let it run for about 8 hours and it never got past the first Looking for applications and documents... stage. To cut to the chase: I thus ordered this 500GB LaCie drive and did a fresh CCC backup from the MB Air. It took 7 minutes to backup 400GB of data! Using the Samsung with USB-C it would take 13 mins for ~22GB. (See screenshot of CCC logs.) I hooked the LaCie up to the MB Pro and started Migration Assistant. The whole process took ~15 minutes. Previously it would take hours. Sorry for rambling on. TLDR; A wicked fast external drive worth every penny. And Thunderbolt makes a huge difference!

The exact cable I need to connect a 2021 Macbook Air to a Western Digital external drive, before this I had to connect both the laptop and the ext HD to a hub and it was very clumsy. Searched around for this cable and B&H has the best deal!

Excellent External hard drive.

I use it as an external hard drive for photos.

This OWC ENVOY worked great with the hard drive from my MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2012) and was out of stock at the manufacture's web site. Thanks to B&H, I did not need to wait long to finish my project.

I purchased this external hard drive so i could back up my 2012 MacBook Pro with time machine. I was able to format the drive for the time machine and had absolutely no issues doing it. I was also able to partition it so it can also be used as a regular drive so i can store photos and videos. Out of the box, the device was flawless and powered up immediately when i plugged it in with USB. No power adapter necessary. When it's running when its recording or reading, its silent and there are no vibrations or rattling noises. Considering the 4TB storage capacity and the fact it's not SSD, this is quite a small device. I've been using Western Digital for over a decade and have never had any issues. In my opinion, they are the best devices and i would recommend them to anyone. They are the best bang for the buck!

This is my first ever external hard drive. It functions fast and properly on my iMAC and MacBook. It's really small compared to what I've seen in the past which makes me nervous about losing it. Otherwise, I don't think you can beat the price.