Thanks, I’ll give it a go.
Can’t put one in the case, it’s a Mac, Apple doesn’t like you doing things like that.
I have a NAS but it’s not really big enough, there’s no point in me spending extra on a NAS over just an external drive if the only thing using it is attached to a desk on the other side of the room.
I think my backup is sound… I use the cloud. All my photos live on the Mac (well, on an external SSD attached to it) and in iCloud. Everything else lives on an SSD and Google Drive.
I want to back the Mac up using Time Machine to an external drive, which will back up the entire contents including all my photos & files saved on the external SSD.
I want to put it in a cupboard because the clicks and whirs of an external HDD are a bit annoying compared to the silence of everything else. I always don’t want another thing on the desk!
I’ve give a long cable a go and see if it works OK 🙂