Internal SATA HDD external dock

[Joe94]

Morning All,

I’m looking into the possibility of using an internal HDD SATA external dock, that I can use with my iMac 2019, so that I can attache at least two HDD SATA drives at one time for back up purposes.. my question is A) is there a specific dock I would need for Macs & B) would any internal SATA drives work with iMac through the dock or is there specific spec I need to look at?

I was thinking a something like in the image.

or am I better of using external HDD drives?

Many Thanks

 

[admirable]

I'm not an Apple peson but I would imagine any two 3.5 inch drives (formatted for the iMac) in an external twin dock/housing connected to your iMac via USB3 or USBc would atchive what you are looking for?

 

[Joe94]

I'm not an Apple peson but I would imagine any two 3.5 inch drives (formatted for the iMac) in an external twin dock/housing connected to your iMac via USB3 or USBc would atchive what you are looking for?

Thank you Jim, Would you say that this method has any benefits over just using two standard USB3/C external drives for back up purposes?

 

[admirable]

Plus - only using one 240v supply and one cable to iMac
Neg - If the twin drive unit goes Pete Tong then depending on the unit you could loose all data from both drives............although I would say this is unlikely.

I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve but It's best to have one unit with all backup data kept onsite and another unit with the same data but kept off site and rotated on a regular basis. For belts and braces you could also backup to the cloud ie: Amazon/ Backblaze etc.

 

[Joe94]

Plus - only using one 240v supply and one cable to iMac
Neg - If the twin drive unit goes Pete Tong then depending on the unit you could loose all data from both drives............although I would say this is unlikely.

I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve but It's best to have one unit with all backup data kept onsite and another unit with the same data but kept off site and rotated on a regular basis. For belts and braces you could also backup to the cloud ie: Amazon/ Backblaze etc.

Thank you for this, much appreciated

 

[gramps]

Not Mac but I have 2 x 6TB external drives in an Icybox dual dock and it works very well for me and my Acronis Backup/Recovery Programme.