Having an external hard drive for your mac is a necessity these days.
External storage for apple macbook air.
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These small devices fit into a spare usb slot and protrude slightly from the side of your macbook.
They re also one of the cheapest ways to increase your machine s total storage.
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Mac computers are notoriously hard to customize once you own them and upgrading your storage at purchase costs a lot more.
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If your macbook has usb type a connectors the old usb standard not the new reversible one then you can use a low profile usb drive to add storage.
Usb3 hd for your air to pack around and a redundant backup for keeping in place at home.
Therefore i would suggest for most people it s best to go with a 512gb macbook air 2020 version.
Methodology to protect your data.
Because i never recommend going with the least expensive model for an apple device the 256gb option is out.
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Here are your options and read the link.
You can switch your external hard drive from a mac to a pc which makes data transfer for two different os easier.
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In this case an external hard drive is less expensive and beneficial for storage requirements.
External hard drives thumb drives usb drives flash memory cards and devices like ipod are examples of storage devices that you can connect to your mac using thunderbolt usb or firewire cables or connect wirelessly using bluetooth.
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Hd are cheap as dirt no computer is a data storage device people who make this error always end up regretting it.
Well upgrading storage space through apple is as costly as purchasing a new laptop.