It's not worth it to buy a portable thunderbolt hard drive for Time Machine. Time Machine will never be able to take advantage of TB's speed; the bottleneck is almost always the processor.
It's not worth it to buy a portable thunderbolt hard drive for Time Machine. Time Machine will never be able to take advantage of TB's speed; the bottleneck is almost always the processor.
To be able to transfer data quickly. The first TM backup will be several magnitudes faster, but you can argue that subsequent, incremental backups are normally too small to take advantage of TB speed. It all depends on how often you backup using TM and whether you have it on always.