External Storage Devices

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To use Time Machine to make a backup of your Mac, you need one of these types of storage devices:

• External drive connected to an AirPort Extreme Base Station (802.11ac) or AirPort Time Capsule
  

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External drive connected to your Mac

Time Machine can back up to an external drive connected to a USB, Thunderbolt, or FireWire port on your Mac. If the disk isn't using the correct format, Time Machine will prompt you to erase it.

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• Beyond that, you may have a device where the default storage option could be a little on the small side, such as a gaming laptop or a console, and that's where an external drive is most useful.

Network-attached storage (NAS) device that supports Time Machine over SMB

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Many third-party NAS devices support Time Machine over SMB. For details, check the documentation for your NAS device.

Mac shared as a Time Machine backup destination

To use another Mac on your network as a Time Machine backup destination, complete these steps on the other Mac:

1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Sharing.
2. From the list of services on the left, select File Sharing.
3. From the Shared Folders list on the right, click the add button (+), then choose a folder to use for Time Machine backups.
4. Control-click the folder that you added, then choose Advanced Options from the shortcuts menu that appears.
   
5. From the Advanced Options dialog, select 'Share as a Time Machine backup destination.'

When setting up Time Machine on your other Mac computers, you should now be able to select the shared folder as a backup disk. Classic doom mod.

External drive connected to an AirPort Extreme Base Station (802.11ac) or AirPort Time Capsule

Time Machine can back up to an external USB drive connected to an AirPort Extreme Base Station (802.11ac model) or AirPort Time Capsule.

1. Connect the drive directly to your Mac, then use Disk Utility to erase it.
2. Connect the drive to a USB port on your AirPort base station, then turn it on.
3. Open AirPort Utility, then select your base station and click Edit to view its settings.
4. Click the Disks tab in the settings window.
5. Select your backup disk from the list of partitions, then select 'Enable file sharing':
   
6. If more than one user on your network will back up to this disk with Time Machine, you can use the Secure Shared Disks pop-up menu to make sure that they can view only their own backups, not yours. Choose 'With accounts' from the menu, then click the add button (+) to add users.
7. Click Update to restart your base station and apply the settings.

AirPort Time Capsule

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Time Machine can back up to the built-in hard disk of an AirPort Time Capsule on your network.

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• Time Machine can't back up to a disk formatted for Windows, or to an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

In computing, external storage comprises devices that store information outside a computer. Such devices may be permanently attached to the computer, may be removable or may use removable media.

Types of external storage[edit]

Magnetic storage[edit]

Optical storage[edit]

Optical storage devices have media that use laser light technology for data storage and retrieval.

Compact disc[edit]

Types of Compact Discs (CDs) include:

• CD-ROM: (Compact Disc Read Only Memory) It can only be read through the drive. And are usually manufactured by in bulk by a stamp type system.
• CD-R: (Compact Disc Recordable) was invented in the 1990s. Using CD-R, it is possible to write data once on a disc at home without the stamping equipment required for CD-ROMs. These are considered write once, read many disks.
• CD-RW: (Compact Disc Re-Writable) same as the CD-R but can be erased and reused. There is a limit on how many times a CD-RW can be written. Presently this limit is 1000 times. CD-RW drives are compatible with CD-ROM and CD-R.

DVD[edit]

DVD stands for Digital Versatile Disc. Its speed is much faster than CD but not as fast as hard disk. The standard DVD-5 technology has a storage capacity of 4.7 GB per layer; most DVDs have a single layer but up to four layers are specified. Also DVD storage capacity changes with recording format.

Blu-ray[edit]

Blu-ray storage capacity is up to 50 gigabytes (or even 100 GB) of data.^[1]The Blu-ray Disc (BD) is a digital optical disc format. It was originally created to take the place of the DVD format due to its expanded storage capacity. The name 'Blu-ray' is derived from the use of a blue laser that is used to read the disc. This would be in contrast to the red laser used to read DVD Discs.

M-DISC[edit]

M-Discs are available as DVD or Blu-ray discs.

Flash memory devices[edit]

Memory card[edit]

Memory cards are flash memory storage media used to store digital information in many electronics products. The types of memory cards include CompactFlash, PCMCIA, secure digital card, multimedia card, memory stick etc.

Memory stick[edit]

Sony introduced memory stick standard in 1998. Memory stick is an integrated circuit designed to serve as a storage and transfer medium for digital data. It can store data in various form as text, graphics, digital images etc. transfer of data is possible between devices having memory stick slots. Memory sticks are available in various storage sizes ranging from 4 MB to 64 MB. The dimensions of a memory stick are 50 mm long, 21.5 mm wide and 2.8 mm thick (in case of pro format). The transfer speed of memory stick is 160 Mbit/s.

USB drives[edit]

A USB flash drive, also variously known as a, thumb drive, pen drive, jump drive, disk key, disk on key, flash-drive, memory stick or USB memory,[a] is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface

References[edit]

1. ^'Blu-ray Disc for Data'. Blu-ray Disc Association. Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA). Retrieved 27 September 2015.

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