By now, you may be more than a little confused over which external storage you should buy for your Mac. Does APFS still work reliably on hard disks? Will the extra cost of USB4 bring faster speeds? What does USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 mean, and do my Mac’s ports support it? Let me try to make the choices a bit clearer.
Internal or external?
One of the most common reasons for buying external storage is to reduce the initial cost of internal storage. Apple doesn’t discount the additional price of larger internal SSDs, and you might think that you can pay for a faster chip option or more memory from the savings you’ll make with a smaller internal SSD.
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