Drive Capacity and Speed
Larger drives are faster..
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2018-09-03 Checking drives before putting into “production”
2018-01-17 macOS 10.13.2 and Disk Utility = Atrocious Bug-Ridden Disaster
2017-12-01 Reader Question: Testing More than One New Drive with DiskTester
2017-08-21 Checking drives before putting into “production”
2017-05-24 Reader Question: Testing More than One New Drive with DiskTester
2017-04-27 Cost-Effective High Capacity Hard Drives: 8TB Now Highly Attractive
2017-01-19 Checking drives before putting into “production”
2016-12-29 Even ”Enterprise Grade” Drives Fail
2016-04-17 8TB HGST Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive in 2009 Mac Pro Internal Bay (DiskTester fill-volume)
See also 3 pages at diglloyd.com
2016-04-17 Using 8TB Hard Drives in Older Mac Pro
2015-11-12 How to Use 32TB or 40TB of 8TB Hard Drives?
Larger drives are faster..
Reviews of Thunderbolt products..
Performance and use..
Outstanding high-capacity enterprise hard drive..
2018-09-03 Checking drives before putting into “production”
2018-01-17 macOS 10.13.2 and Disk Utility = Atrocious Bug-Ridden Disaster
2017-12-01 Reader Question: Testing More than One New Drive with DiskTester
2017-08-21 Checking drives before putting into “production”
2017-05-24 Reader Question: Testing More than One New Drive with DiskTester
2017-04-27 Cost-Effective High Capacity Hard Drives: 8TB Now Highly Attractive
2017-01-19 Checking drives before putting into “production”
2016-12-29 Even ”Enterprise Grade” Drives Fail
2016-04-17 8TB HGST Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive in 2009 Mac Pro Internal Bay (DiskTester fill-volume)
2016-01-12 Price Drop on 4TB Internal SSD for 2013 Mac Pro, 6TB Hard Drives, 1TB SSDs, USB3 Hub
2015-12-07 Reconfiguring Storage to use 8TB Drives, Data Integrity Critical
2015-11-17 HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8: RAID-4, RAID-0, RAID-5 Scalability
2015-11-14 Real-World Drive Speed with 8TB HGST Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive (DiskTester fill-volume)
2015-11-14 OWC Announces SoftRAID 5.1, and SoftRAID Lite
2015-11-14 HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8 vs HGST 6TB Deskstar NAS, 6TB Capacity Utilization
2015-11-13 Testing Hard Drive Consistency for a RAID
2015-11-13 Real-World Drive Speed with 8TB HGST Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive (DiskTester fill-volume)
2015-11-13 OWC Price Drop and Deals: 8TB HGST Ultrastar He8 and TRIPP LITE USB3 Hub
2015-11-12 How to Use 32TB or 40TB of 8TB Hard Drives?
2015-11-11 REVIEWED: HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive, Singly and in RAID
2015-11-10 Coming Soon for Testing: HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive
2015-05-27 Upgrade iMac to up to 8TB Internally!
2015-03-26 Hard Drives: Staying the Course with Higher Performance and up to 8TB Capacity
2015-01-22 Hard Drive Reliability
2014-12-24 TESTED: Hitachi HGST Deskstar 6TB NAS Hard Drive — Fastest Yet!
2014-05-19 Special: 4TB for $165, also, 1TB Laptop Drives
2013-01-11 Fast Hard Drive: Toshiba HGST 3TB (HDKPC08/DT01ACAxx) with RAID-0 Stripe Results
2013-01-10 Fast Hard Drive: Toshiba HGST 3TB (HDKPC08/DT01ACAxx)