External USB/Thunderbolt drives (aka direct-attached storage, or DAS) are a super-convenient way to quickly back up your important files, as well as store any data that you don’t need on your ...

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It’s never been easy to upgrade the storage in Macs, so it’s always a good idea to buy an external drive to provide extra storage for all your work files, photos, videos, and games.

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Some people back up solely by manually copying important files or folders to an external drive; others don’t make any backups at all. Are any of these people TidBITS readers? So here’s my question. In ...

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