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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)

2016-01-27 Reader Question: Drive Speed of 6TB vs 8TB Hard Drives (VIDEO USERS: some neat tricks here for guaranteeing high drive speed)

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2016-04-17 Using 8TB Hard Drives in Older Mac Pro

2015-11-12 How to Use 32TB or 40TB of 8TB Hard Drives?

2015-11-11 Big, Fast and Fault-Tolerant Storage for Photographers and Videographers: 8TB Drives Singly or as RAID-4, RAID-5, RAID-10, RAID-0

Drive Capacity and Speed

Larger drives are faster..

  1. 4/5/6TB Hard Drives: Higher Capacity Boosts Real-World Performance

Thunderbolt peripherals

Reviews of Thunderbolt products..

  1. OWC Drive Dock: Thunderbolt + USB3 Connectivity Using Dual Bare Hard Drives or SSDs

Desktop Hard Drives

Performance and use..

  1. HGST Deskstar 6TB NAS Hard Drive
  2. Toshiba 3TB Hard Drive (HDKPC08/DT01ACAxx)

HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8

Outstanding high-capacity enterprise hard drive..

  1. HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive
  2. Using 4 or 5 8TB Hard Drives: Singly or RAID and How?
  3. Using High Capacity Drives Singly (non-RAID)
  4. Using High Capacity Drives in a RAID-0 Stripe Volume
  5. Using High Capacity Drives as Single Large RAID-4 / RAID-5 Volume
  6. Using High Capacity Drives as RAID-4 / RAID-5, Multiple Volumes
  7. HGST Ultrastar He8: Sample Variation
  8. HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8 vs HGST 6TB Deskstar NAS, 6TB Capacity Utilization
  9. HGST Ultrastar He8 Performance: Speed vs Capacity Utilization
  10. HGST Ultrastar He8 Performance: Transfer Size
  11. HGST Ultrastar He8 Performance: RAID-0 Striping
  12. HGST Ultrastar He8 Performance: RAID-0 vs RAID-4 / RAID-5 Compared 3/4/5/6/7/8 Drives
  13. HGST Ultrastar He8 Performance: RAID 1+0

Blog posts

2018

2018-09-03 Checking drives before putting into “production”

2018-01-17 macOS 10.13.2 and Disk Utility = Atrocious Bug-Ridden Disaster

2017

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

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)

2016-01-27 Reader Question: Drive Speed of 6TB vs 8TB Hard Drives (VIDEO USERS: some neat tricks here for guaranteeing high drive speed)

2016-01-12 Price Drop on 4TB Internal SSD for 2013 Mac Pro, 6TB Hard Drives, 1TB SSDs, USB3 Hub

2015

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 Reader Question: Drive Speed of 6TB vs 8TB Hard Drives (VIDEO USERS: some neat tricks here for guaranteeing high drive speed)

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

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

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)

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