Although any backup is better than no backup at all, Time Machine may not protect your data to the extent or in the way that you need. A few significant weaknesses offset its impressive strengths.

Don't risk losing everything on your Mac! It's simple to back up using Apple's Time Machine.

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 a backup application developed by Apple that’s distributed with macOS.