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2017-12-30 diglloydTools v 2.2.15 Now Includes Java IntegrityChecker with up to 50% Speed Improvement

2017-12-24 diglloydTools Updated to v 2.2.15, IntegrityChecker Sees up to 38% Speed Improvement

2017-04-15 Lloyd at Photoshop World Apr 19/20/21

2017-01-11 FOR SALE: Lloyd’s Apple Laptops, NEC Display

2016-12-21 OWC 40TB SSD Performance as Photoshop Scratch Drive

2016-10-08 diglloydTools: Current version Works with macOS Sierra (no update needed)

2016-09-10 Reader Question: diglloydTool IntegrityChecker to address “had an experience where a number of my RAW files were silently corrupted”

2016-09-03 Updated: Diglloyd Photoshop Benchmarks

2016-08-13 diglloydTools IntegrityChecker 'icj' beta 6 now posted

2016-08-13 diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java Version: Finds Duplicates, Saved me 100GB!

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Apple Mac mini (November 2018)

True desktop-class performance..

1. 2018 Mac mini: diglloyd Adobe Photoshop Benchmarks

Apple MacBook Pro Retina (July 2018)

Vastly improved performance over 2017 model, 6 CPU Cores..

1. 2018 MacBook Pro: diglloyd Adobe Photoshop Benchmarks

Apple MacBook Pro Retina (June 2017)

Improved performance over 2016 model..

1. 2017 MacBook Pro: diglloyd Adobe Photoshop Benchmarks

Apple MacBook Pro Retina (late 2016)

Touchbar, wide gamut, unrivalled SSD..

1. 2016 MacBook Pro: diglloyd Adobe Photoshop Benchmarks

Apple MacBook Pro Retina (2015)

Evolving the platform with a hyper fast SSD..

1. Real World Shootout: diglloydHuge Photoshop Benchmark
2. Photoshop Speed: diglloydSpeed1 and diglloydMedium Photoshop Benchmarks

Promise Pegasus J4 Thunderbolt 4-Drive Enclosure

SSDs or hard drives for fast single-drive or RAID volumes in a portable enclosure..

1. Promise Pegasus J4 — Photoshop CS6 Speed (diglloydHuge)

OWC Thunderbay 4 Mini

High performance with 2.5-inch hard drives or SSDs..

1. Thunderbay Mini with SSDs as a Photoshop Scratch Disk

OWC 40TB SSD (in Thunderbay 4 Mini)

Ultra high flat-line performanc in 40 Terabyte capacity.

1. OWC 40TB SSD: Photoshop Scratch Disk Performance

Drobo 5D with Thunderbolt or USB3

RAID reliability in easy to configure 5-drive enclosure for full-size hard drives..

1. Drobo 5D — As a Photoshop Scratch Disk

Apple 2017 iMac Pro

High-end computing moves to the iMac form factor..

1. 2017 iMac Pro: diglloyd Photoshop Benchmarks

Apple 2017 iMac 5K

Even better than the 2015 model..

1. 2017 iMac 5K: diglloyd Photoshop Benchmarks
2. 2017 iMac 5K: Photoshop Benchmarks, 64GB vs 8GB Memory

Apple 2015 iMac 5K

5K Display, blazingly fast SSD.

1. iMac 5K (Late 2015) vs Mac Pro: diglloyd Photoshop Benchmarks
2. iMac 5K (Late 2015) vs Mac Pro: XCode Build diglloydTools

Apple 2014 iMac 5K

World’s first 5K Display.

1. iMac 5K vs Mac Pro, XCode build diglloydTools

Memory Configuration in 2013 Mac Pro

32GB, 64GB or 128GB?.

1. OWC 128GB Memory Kit: Photoshop CC diglloyd Benchmarks
2. OWC 128GB Memory Kit: Photoshop CC With Too Little Memory

2013 Mac Pro Performance

Performance of the 2013 Mac Pro..

1. 2013 Mac Pro: Photoshop CC Performance (diglloydSpeed1, diglloydMedium)
2. 2013 Mac Pro: Photoshop CC Performance (diglloydHuge)

Optimizing Photoshop CS6 / Creative Cloud Performance

Preferred configuration for best performance..

1. diglloyd Benchmarks for Photoshop CC

Optimizing Photoshop CS5 Performance

The best hardware and configuration for Photoshop CS5..

1. Photoshop CS5 diglloyd Benchmarks

Choosing and Configuring a Mac

An in-depth look at how to find the right Mac setup for you.

1. My Mac Pro: An Example

Apple Mac Pro Westmere 4/6/8/12-Core (Aug 2010)

Choosing among 4/6/8/12 cores, and is 2010 Mac Pro faster or better than 2009 model?.

1. Mac Pro Westmere Photoshop Performance: diglloydSpeed1
2. Mac Pro Westmere Photoshop Performance: diglloydMedium
3. Mac Pro Westmere Photoshop Performance: diglloydHuge
4. Mac Pro Westmere XCode C++ Build

OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe RAID SSD

Ultra-fast solid state storage with hardware RAID for a Mac Pro in a PCIe slot..

1. Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD — Photoshop CS6 Benchmark (diglloydMedium)
2. Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD — Photoshop CS6 Benchmark (diglloydHuge)

OWC Mercury Accelsior Pro Q

Ultra-fast PCIe SSD for Classic Mac Pro or Thunderbolt Macs.

1. Performance as Photoshop Scratch Drive (diglloydHuge Benchmark)

OWC Mercury Electra 960GB 3G SSD

Huge capacity in a speedy SATA SSD..

1. OWC Mercury Electra 960GB — Photoshop CS6 diglloydMedium

OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 6G SSD

Fast 6 Gbps solid state drives eclipse prior generations with 500+ MB/sec..

1. Photoshop CS5 diglloydMedium Benchmark
2. Photoshop CS5 diglloydHuge Benchmark — OWC 480GB 6G SSD on Mac Pro 3G Port

OWC Mercury Electra 6G 960GB SSD

Fast 6 Gbps high capacity SSD..

1. OWC Mercury Electra 6G 960GB SSD: diglloydHuge Photoshop Benchmark

OWC Mercury Aura SSD for Mac Pro

High Capacity internal SSD for 2013 Mac Pro..

1. As Photoshop Scratch Disk for diglloydHuge Benchmark

Apple Mac Mini (Late 2012)

Apple’s first USB3 MacMini..

1. Photoshop CS6 Performance — diglloydSpeed1
2. Photoshop CS6 Performance — diglloydMedium
3. Photoshop CS6 Performance — 16GB vs 8GB, SSD vs HDD

Apple iMac 3.4 GHz (Late 2012)

Apple’s fastest Mac as of Jan 2013?.

1. Photoshop CS6 Performance — diglloydSpeed1
2. Photoshop CS6 Performance — diglloydMedium
3. Photoshop CS6 Performance — diglloydHuge

Apple MacBook Pro Retina Quad-Core (Late 2013, 'Crystal Well')

Higher performance Retina model..

1. Photoshop CC Performance: diglloydSpeed1, diglloydMedium Benchmarks
2. Photoshop CC Performance: diglloydHuge Benchmark

Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch Quad-Core (June 2012)

Apple’s 2012 MacBook Pro (non Retina)..

1. 2012 MBP 15-inch — Photoshop CS6 Speed with Various SSDs

Blog posts

2017

2017-12-30 diglloydTools v 2.2.15 Now Includes Java IntegrityChecker with up to 50% Speed Improvement

2017-12-24 diglloydTools Updated to v 2.2.15, IntegrityChecker Sees up to 38% Speed Improvement

2017-04-15 Lloyd at Photoshop World Apr 19/20/21

2017-01-11 FOR SALE: Lloyd’s Apple Laptops, NEC Display

2016

2016-12-21 OWC 40TB SSD Performance as Photoshop Scratch Drive

2016-10-08 diglloydTools: Current version Works with macOS Sierra (no update needed)

2016-09-10 Reader Question: diglloydTool IntegrityChecker to address “had an experience where a number of my RAW files were silently corrupted”

2016-09-03 Updated: Diglloyd Photoshop Benchmarks

2016-08-13 diglloydTools IntegrityChecker 'icj' beta 6 now posted

2016-08-13 diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java Version: Finds Duplicates, Saved me 100GB!

2016-08-09 diglloydTools IntegrityChecker 'icj' beta 5 now posted

2016-08-04 NEW! Cross Platform Java-Based diglloydTools IntegrityChecker

2016-07-19 Reader Question: Carbon Copy Cloner and File Integrity

2016-05-31 What a Bad Hard Drive Fails Like when Running diglloydTools 'fill-volume'

2016-05-18 Apple 2016 MacBook: Real-World Photoshop Performance + IntegrityChecker Speed

2016-03-27 What a Bad Hard Drive Fails Like when Running diglloydTools 'fill-volume'

2016-03-01 Photography / Videography: Enhancing your iMac 5K (or Mac Pro)

2016-01-24 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.13

2015

2015-12-05 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.12

2015-12-05 iMac 5K (Late 2015) vs Mac Pro: XCode Build diglloydTools

2015-11-20 Late 2015 iMac 5K: diglloyd Photoshop Benchmarks

2015-11-19 Wish Lists from Lloyd and Others

2015-11-13 Testing Hard Drive Consistency for a RAID

2015-10-07 diglloydTools: Working Fine on El Capitan

2015-09-05 Testing Multiple Drives for Consistency for a RAID , or just Finding Dud or Flaky Drives in a Batch

2015-08-11 Testing Multiple Drives for Consistency for a RAID or Similar

2015-07-05 diglloydTools for Testing Drives, Data Integrity, Wiping Sensitive Files

2015-06-09 2015 MacBook Pro: Photoshop Performance

2015-05-03 Detecting Corruption / Validating Data Integrity Over Time and Across Drives and Backup/Restore

2015-02-28 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.11

2015-01-09 Detecting Corruption / Validating Data Integrity Over Time and Across Drives and Backup/Restore

2015-01-09 Testing Multiple Drives for Consistency for a RAID or Similar

2014

2014-12-06 Site Maintenance this evening.

2014-12-04 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.11

2014-11-21 OWC ThunderBay Mini Performance with Four SSDs

2014-11-21 What an Impaired SSD Looks Like

2014-11-21 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.9

2014-11-12 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.8

2014-11-02 diglloydTools DiskTester, IntegrityChecker, MemoryTester — Works Fine on OS X Yosemite

2014-08-29 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.7b

2014-07-30 Just Did a Big Drive Reconfig: How Did I Verify Data Integrity?

2014-07-15 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.7a

2014-06-23 Through June 30: Take 20% off Consulting with purchase of diglloydTools

2014-06-11 Detecting Corruption / Validating Data Integrity Over Time and Across Drives and Backup/Restore

2014-06-08 Testing Multiple Drives for Consistency for a RAID or Similar

2014-06-08 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.7b1

2014-05-06 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.5

2014-05-03 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.4

2014-04-01 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.3

2013

2013-10-26 Minor Update for diglloydTools for OS X Mavericks

2013-10-07 Are Your Backup Drives Still Functional? Are Your Files Subtly Damaged?

2013-10-07 OS X Mavericks and diglloydTools

2013-09-07 OS X Mavericks and diglloydTools

2012

2012-12-15 What’s Most Important for Your Mac?

2012-05-05 Three Web Sites by Lloyd Chambers

2012-04-19 OWC’s new Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD for Ultra-Fast Photoshop CS6

2012-04-16 OWC’s new Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD for Ultra-Fast Photoshop CS6

2012-02-10 diglloydTools beta Now Available for Download

2012-02-05 Working on diglloydTools Update

2012-01-22 More Memory With Big Photoshop Jobs = Big Speedup

2011

2011-10-10 Yes, diglloydTools Works on Mac OS X Lion (and Mountain Lion)

2011-07-24 Mac OS X Lion and diglloydTools

2011-06-01 Three Web Sites by Lloyd Chambers

2011-01-03 Photography Sister Site — diglloyd.com

2010

2010-08-07 New Sites for diglloydTools, MPG Pro Workstation, MPG Pro Laptop, MPG Pro One

2010-04-14 DIGLLOYD Mac Performance Guide releases powerful Mac Performance Enhancement and Testing Tools — diglloydTools 2.0

2010-04-14 OWC and DIGLLOYD offer ultra-high-performance MPG Pro Laptop

2010-03-31 OWC and DIGLLOYD offer ultra-high-performance MPG Pro Workstations