My current Time Machine drive is a 4TB HDD I've been using for...probably like a decade at this point. It's been very reliable. But being an HDD, it has the obvious downsides of noise and slowness.
Time Machine is Apple's native utility for backing up data on macOS onto an external drive. The app comes preinstalled on Macs, making it easy to set up for regular backups. Backing up with Time ...