Time Machine Backup External Hard Disk

I bought this hard drive to use with Time Machine on my Mac. I literally just plugged it in, then the computer asked me if I wanted to use it as my Time Machine backup and I clicked yes. Presto. Done. Didn't install any software, it's just plug and play. (I had to buy a new external drive because I got a new computer and the old backup drive would be completely overwritten if I used it for Time Machine. This one is about 1/20 the size of the old. Since I work upstairs in my bedroom at night sometimes, it's nice to have an external drive that is completely portable. This way I tend to plug it in for a backup more often instead of waiting until I am downstairs again.) I actually bought an extra one for a different computer.

I'm using this card as a backup disk for Time Machine on macOS Catalina, works great!

I use this for my backups with Time Machine. The capacity backup 1/2 TB better than my previous disk which was a half Terabyte. It is idiot simple to hookup and use. I have found no faults in the first month.

Within a few minutes of opening the box of this disk I was using it to backup my MAC using Time Machine. That was my main reason for purchasing it. I also, use it to back up my wife's MAC. There is a lot of chatter on the net about the constant RAID activity of this disk. That is just a characteristic of RAID and the fact that Time Machine is writing to the disk every hour by two MACs.

I use this drive as the Time Machine backup disk for my laptop running OS X Yosemite; it works nicely. With the drive on my desk, I can still hear the cooling fan, but I don't mind it. I think the device is well designed (easy-to-use and looks good), and it has a good warranty.

When you have a 4TB Mac laptop and want Time Machine backups that keep old versions of files and folders around, you need a backup drive bigger than 4TB. This 8TB drive, formatted with APFS and encrypted, does the trick. Old fashioned mechanical disk drives take forever for Time Machine backups. Since Time Machine runs hourly, it's nice having a drive that can backup everything quickly. This was an expensive solution, but it is so nice knowing I can revert to an old version and keep a lot of old versions of stuff around. The peace of mind is a big payoff. This may sound weird, but I mainly use my laptop at home, sitting on my couch with on my laptop - of all places, sitting on my lap. I just taped this drive to the lid and plugged it in to a TB port and it backs up while I work. Yes, it looks ugly as sin, but I mainly look at the front of my with the screen and keyboard. I don't sit staring at the laptop lid with an SSD taped to it. Besides, there's nothing prettier than a properly backed up disk.

purchased this ssd for time machine backups. previous backup ssd was half the size of the disk it was backing up, which is okay as long as the source disk is less than half full. also wanted to avoid the troubled sandisk/western digital ssds. plugged the samsung in, formatted it, made it the time machine target, and have since ignored it. will test its backups next friday 13th. otherwise, it's invisible as it should be. entirely satisfied with this purchase.

If you want extra backup besides your Time Machine,with the safety of encryption .San Disk gots you covered

I got this hard drive for a system backup. I am checking to see how it works with Apple's Time Machine. So far it is working very well. I will then get another one just like it to rotate Off-site to protect my data. This is in addition to a cloud storage.

Just purchased the hard drive for my time machine backup. Love it! A great value for the price.