I just bought a 2020 MacBook Pro 13 Intel i5 with MacOS Big Sur. I also found the storage is soldered to the system board. I believe it is a PCIe/NVMe type, not SATA anymore. The partition is APFS, not Mac OS Extended. I want to clone it to an external storage, and be able to restore from it in case of corruption.
So what type of the external storage should I get for this clone in 2021. I believe most writing on this are for old SATA times prior to 2014. They just assumed everything were SATA. Not anymore! It's 2021 now, SATA is out and NVMe is the king.
So what type of the external drive shoudl it be:
1) Any old 2.5" SATA spinning hard disk drive
2) Any 2.5" SATA SSD 7mm
3) Any M.2 2280 SATA SSD stick
4) Any M.2 2280 PCIe 2.0 x2 NVMe stick with B+M key
5) Any M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0 x2 NVMe stick with B+M key
6) Any M.2 2280 PCTe 3.0 x4 NVMe stick with M key
Please advise!
Thanks
So what type of the external storage should I get for this clone in 2021. I believe most writing on this are for old SATA times prior to 2014. They just assumed everything were SATA. Not anymore! It's 2021 now, SATA is out and NVMe is the king.
So what type of the external drive shoudl it be:
1) Any old 2.5" SATA spinning hard disk drive
2) Any 2.5" SATA SSD 7mm
3) Any M.2 2280 SATA SSD stick
4) Any M.2 2280 PCIe 2.0 x2 NVMe stick with B+M key
5) Any M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0 x2 NVMe stick with B+M key
6) Any M.2 2280 PCTe 3.0 x4 NVMe stick with M key
Please advise!
Thanks