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I used to back up to portable LaCie and Seagate drives. I now back up my drives to an Samsung T5 1TB SSD which I carry on my person—a fraction of the size/weight and light years faster. Saying this, I also back everything up to a couple of LaCie 5400 rugged drives, now inexpensive, which I store off...

@ HCMarkus Glad to have your input. Threads have a tendency to get off track (not always a bad thing) and this thread had already wandered before you chimed in. The reason I’m thinking it best to encrypt the entire drive is simply to put a lock on the whole enchilada. This is because from what I gat...

FWIW, as the thread has totally moved away from my question: from 2004-08 my workhorse was a 2004 single processor 15” MacBook Pro recording (24/44.1) to an external Glyph firewire 400 drive via a ULN-2. Some of those projects have 30 audio tracks running at the same time (something I certainly coul...

Is this going to be a boot drive? No. Is it going to store DP projects? Yes. What kind of Mac do you have... MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015), 8GB RAM, 128 GB SSD; OSX 10.14.6 ...and what is this external? Samsung T3 SSD, Samsung T5SSD from earlier in the thread: I just figured that folks o...

Thanks for chiming in, Mike. I feel like I know you too as I’ve been reading your helpful posts for years. “If the only Macs that will be connected are formatted APFS, then yes, go ahead. Otherwise, don’t.” Yes, APFS to APFS only. When you said, “go ahead,” did you mean regarding encryption? If so, ...

re: APFS (encrypted) Yes, this would be a first for me too; never put a password on an encrypted drive before. But if it is safe, a very good idea for a portable SSD. Maybe someone out there has some insight on the matter? DP 9.52 (purchased but yet to install 10.01); OS 10.14.6: MacBook Pro (Retina...

Thanks so much for the warm welcome from Down Under! I’m a longtime composer/songwriter, originally from Canada, now living in New York. Regarding my post: When erasing a drive—to format it—the second option on the pulldown menu is “APFS (Encrypted)”. Evidently, this will require a password every ti...

I’m a longtime Motu user (Pro Composer ’86, Performer ’87...) whose been reading the MotuNation forums for many years. I believe this is my first post. Is it safe to APFS encrypt a portable SSD drive? I’m in the habit of carrying around a backup portable drive on my person; however, in the back of m...