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Now that you know that you can use one big drive or array as both a Time Machine backup drive and as a place to store even more data, what are you waiting for Take a look at all of the external storage OWC has to offer and make an investment in the security of your data.

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Previously, we discussed how to use the Time Machine app built into OS X to easily and quickly begin backing up data on your Mac, as well as online cloud backup services and their importance to a redundant backup strategy.

For those situations where theres just one backup drive connected to one Mac, there will be one folder inside backups.backupdb with the name of your Mac on it (i.e., Bobs iMac).

There is a downside to this method; Time Machine files tend to grow to fill the space allotted to them, so eventually, your drive may run out of space for those extra files.

For example, the OWC Mercury Elite Pro in a 6TB configuration with fast USB 3.0 connectivity is just 367.99 as of this publication date.

If your Mac has even a 2TB drive built in, you could use all of that spacious drive for Time Machine backups for a long, long time.

Or you can consider another idea using that space for your Time Machine backup and as a place to store all those big video files youre working on.

Usually, Mac drives come from plants in China, California, or Texas with more than one partition or space the default drive partition and whats called a Recovery Partition.

The latter is what you can use to restore a bad OS X installation by holding down CommandR while rebooting the Mac.

The Recovery Partition is hidden from view, even when you use the Disk Utility (found in the Applications Utilities folder) app to view whats on the drive.

It doesnt take up a lot of storage, so partitioning a drive into two or more individual drive spaces doesnt infringe on the Recovery Partition.

That 6TB Mercury Elite Pro drive Split it up into a 4TB partition for Time Machine and a 2TB place for your big files, and youve got it made.

There are a couple of ways you can do this; first is to dig around in your Applications folder until you find the Utilities folder, then double-click that Disk Utility icon.

The easy way Type Command-Space to bring up your Spotlight search window, type in Disk Utility, and then press the Return key (see image below).

To add our partition, we want to click on the external drive physical disk name RAID 1 Media.

The next step Click on the Partition button in the Disk Utility toolbar.

Now sadly, this test drive doesnt have a lot of space available, so well just make a 150GB (.15TB) partition to put files into.

To size the drive to the proper capacity, either move the dot around the circumference of the circle until you see the desired capacity in the Size field, or type the capacity into that field.

Be sure to give the Partition a name in this example, My Stuff and choose the format, which should usually remain OS X Extended (Journaled).

This step can take a while if you already have a Time Machine backup on the drive, as there are a huge number of files that are checked.

Once the partitioning is complete, Time Machine will continue to back up to the original volume since its name has not been changed.

Just note that youll need to give each partition a name (perhaps Time Machine and Data), then use the Time Machine System Preference to select the Time Machine partition.

This is a case where a redundant backup strategy can help, as that data could theoretically find a backup home on another drive or in a cloud backup system.

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