HOT! OWC Envoy Pro EX 2TB Thunderbolt 3 SSD + Time Machine and Backup Tips + More

2017-11-27 • SEND FEEDBACK |
Related: 4K and 5K display, backup, computer display, editorial, iMac, Other World Computing, OWC Envoy Pro, OWC Envoy Pro EX, Seagate, SSD, Thunderbolt, Thunderbolt 3, weather events

See the MPG Mac wish list and MPG wishlists for computer gear at OWC.

Some recent posts directly relevant to photographers, particularly photographers that travel.

• Gobsmacked: Power Efficicency of the 2017 iMac 5K vs 2015 iMac 5K, Particularly on the Road in Sprinter Van
• Using Two Thunderbolt 3 Ports to Build Out a System
• Time Machine and APFS: Local Backups
• HOT! OWC Envoy Pro EX 2TB Thunderbolt 3 SSD Now In Stock [This will become my travel backup drive and for other purposes also. It is ideal for anyone with a too-small internal SSD on a Thunderbolt 3 machine]
• Tips on Using Apple Time Machine, Tips on Backup
• Advice for those Considering the 2016 MacBook Pro Deals
• How to Disable Downloading of macOS High Sierra
• How to not Waste/Lose a Huge Chunk of Cellular Data for Personal Hotspot : Disable Background Downloading
• My Plain Text Editor of Choice: BBEdit
• Testing Seagate 12TB Enterprise Capacity 3.5-inch (Helium) Hard Drives

Of particular note: I do NOT recommend using APFS if you are using HighSierra. Also, see the tip on blocking macOS from wasting bandwidth or blocking macOS from downloading HighSierra at all.

Those Seagate 12TB drives are rocking fast—see the read/write graph with 4 samples.

OWC Envoy Pro EX 2TB Thunderbolt 3 SSD

Performance across drive capacity (read and write) of four Seagate 12.0TB Enterprise Capacity 3.5-inch HDD (Helium)