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You can hook up any external hard drive via the USB-C or Thunderbolt connection. The drive will appear in the mini's MacOS filing system. You can then use this as extra storage or as a backup. Either ...

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and external ones that tell them to spin down after a period during which there has been no access to data stored on them. The next time an HDD is needed, there is a slight delay while the drive ...