Wondering if they seamlessly support Apple's Time Machine for backing up... anyone know from experience?
I’m young enough to have worked with an actual Winchester brand hard drive when loading stuff on the Wang VS wordprcessor my dad had at work when I was a kid. It had the most musical sound of any hard drive I’ve ever heard, almost like a beeping slot machineInstead of starting a new thread, perhaps I can bump this one?
My wife and I each have our own M1 Air's now, little monsters, but because we opted for the 256GB versions, we've had to move all our photo and video libraries onto external drives, a pair of Seagate One Touch 4TB's. They work, but we can pretty much go have breakfast while waiting for some of the Photo libraries to open.
So my question is, who here has experience using a Photos library bigger than 700GB and containing more than 105k images, lots of them RAW, on a Samsung T7 and an M1 machine?
I would also not bother with a dongle when using such a drive as you can connect directly with USB-C.
Interestingly enough, an iMovie library of some 700GB and mostly 1080HD or less isn't running too bad on the Seagate HDD, but Photos is practically unusable.
I'm also thinking to go straight for the T7 and not bother with the T5, as the price difference isn't that big whereas the speed is double. I can get a T7-2TB on Amazon for €277. I paid a paltry €90 for the Seagate 4TB.
And here I am old enough to remember how long it took to save a one page plain text document with Lotus 1 2 3 on a 6" floppy disk...
I have a pair of 2TB T7's and they are great. However, I've seen other posts that say the T7 cannot reach full speed on the M1 machines (I get ~840 write/925 read on my 2018 Mini). So that makes me wonder if the T7 is actually any faster than the T5 on an M1?
The iPad Air 4 is a USB-C iPad (with a port that's limited to 5Gb/sec.) No need for any Lightning or USB-A adapters there.It doesn't need thunderbolt. USB-C is faster, but it also works with USB-A and a standard cable is included. As to whether it works with an iPad... no idea, but you could plug a lightning to USB-C cable into it and see what what happens.![]()
The Samsung T7 is a plain USB device that does not have Thunderbolt.Will this also work or is a thunderbolt USB-C connection (which only ipad pro has) required?