Hi guys. I need a little help.
I have an iMac Pro with (2) Samsung 990 Pro M.2 SSDs. I use the internal Apple 1TB SSD for the Mac OS and my apps, (1) Samsung 990 Pro 4TB external SSD for my client files, and (1) Samsung 990 Pro 4TB external SSD for my media. I probably use about half of the 9TB of total storage space. I use Backblaze for daily cloud backups but don't have a local backup solution.
My understanding is if I want to back up all three drives with Time Machine, I need at least three times the space I use, which would be about 12TB. One of the reasons I got away from Time Machine a few years ago was that the external G-drive I used kept disconnecting from my iMac Pro when it went to sleep, making the backups unreliable.
I have two questions. Has that problem been resolved with Sonoma 14.5, and what 10-12TB external drive would you purchase to use with Time Machine? The fastest external port on my iMac Pro is Thunderbolt 3, but I suspect that a traditional hard drive will have much slower transfer speeds than the Thunderbolt 3 port. I also have a Synology 1512+ sitting around that I may be able to use, but it's so old that it's limited to DSM 6.0.
Once again, any help and/or advice is very much appreciated.
I have an iMac Pro with (2) Samsung 990 Pro M.2 SSDs. I use the internal Apple 1TB SSD for the Mac OS and my apps, (1) Samsung 990 Pro 4TB external SSD for my client files, and (1) Samsung 990 Pro 4TB external SSD for my media. I probably use about half of the 9TB of total storage space. I use Backblaze for daily cloud backups but don't have a local backup solution.
My understanding is if I want to back up all three drives with Time Machine, I need at least three times the space I use, which would be about 12TB. One of the reasons I got away from Time Machine a few years ago was that the external G-drive I used kept disconnecting from my iMac Pro when it went to sleep, making the backups unreliable.
I have two questions. Has that problem been resolved with Sonoma 14.5, and what 10-12TB external drive would you purchase to use with Time Machine? The fastest external port on my iMac Pro is Thunderbolt 3, but I suspect that a traditional hard drive will have much slower transfer speeds than the Thunderbolt 3 port. I also have a Synology 1512+ sitting around that I may be able to use, but it's so old that it's limited to DSM 6.0.
Once again, any help and/or advice is very much appreciated.