MP 1,1-5,1 Can you recommend a good external HDD for MacPro 5,1 —> future M1 iMac?

[Luba]

Currently I don’t have a backup for my MacPro 5,1 because I think Time Capsule stopped being a reliable way to use Time Machine. One day it wasn’t operating correctly. I don’t know if it was because of the Time Machine app or because of Time Capsule, but I go into the Airport Utility app and disk inside TC isn’t even named as the one I erased and reformatted. It was working and backing up for awhile so I assumed Disk Utility reformatted it correctly. I had to reformat because when I upgraded from Sierra to High Sierra, it somehow “broke” Time Machine to Time Capsule. The backups were no longer encrypted so I decided to start over reformat Time Capsule and renamed the disk. And like I said it was backing up correctly for a while, then suddenly it wasn’t working. Using Airport Utility the Time Capsule disk wasn’t named with the new name I gave it after reformatting, but the previous name!

Anyway, I don’t know what app or device to blame, or maybe I did something wrong. I’m thinking using Time Machine again to backup my data until the new M1 iMac comes out. I also have Carbon Copy Cloner. What external HDD do you recommend that I buy? The external needs a USB-A or FireWire 800 connector, and ideally the external would have Thunderbolt 3 that I would use for my future iMac. I have about 3 TB of data.

What do you think of LaCie’s d2 Professional 6 TB HDD for $225? It’s USB-C, no Thunderbolt 3. Perhaps Thunderbolt 3 is not that important as most of my data are not videos for editing??

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[bsbeamer]

Install DriveDx.

Standard USB drives work just fine. Western Digital USB 3.0 "My Book" and "Elements" are traditional external desktop drive, however the smaller "My Passport" have 4TB/5TB capacities now that would likely be enough headroom.

Get a pack of cables like this cheap:

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Or adapters like this to use standard USB cables:

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