Drive Capacity and Speed
Larger drives are faster..
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2019-01-19 Testing Six Samples of Toshiba 14TB MG07ACA Enterprise Class Hard Drive
2017-04-15 Deals at OWC / MacSales.com
2016-04-02 Deal: 3TB Hard Drives for $90
2016-01-12 Price Drop on 4TB Internal SSD for 2013 Mac Pro, 6TB Hard Drives, 1TB SSDs, USB3 Hub
2015-11-11 OWC Deals: 4TB and 6TB Hard Drives, 32GB Memory for Mac Pro 2009-2012
2014-11-26 OWC Holiday Deals
2014-10-18 Capacity Utilization vs Speed: that 5th Terabyte on 5TB and 6TB Hard Drives
2014-10-17 Capacity Utilization vs Speed, which is faster, 4TB, 5TB or 6TB Hard Drive?
2014-10-16 Hard Drives: Capacity Utilization vs Speed aka “4TB or 5TB or 6TB Hard Drives?”
2014-08-29 OWC Labor Day Specials
2014-02-12 Is a 4TB Enterprise-Grade Hard Disk Drive Faster than a 3TB Consumer-Grade HDD For RAID?
2013-10-02 Prices Drop a Little: Toshiba 3TB Hard Drives + OWC Mercury Accelsior PCie SSD
2013-07-13 Defrag or Upgrade to Faster/Larger? (Lightroom, Aperture, etc)
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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2019-02-18 Delayed For Days: Hard Drive Horrors
2019-01-12 Reader Comment: Hard Drive Bad Sectors, Enterprise vs Consumer Drives
2017-04-15 Deals at OWC / MacSales.com
2014-07-21 Memory Cards: Big discounts on high capacity SDXC and Compact Flash
2013-12-21 Recommended Products, and Free Next Day Delivery from B&H Photo
2013-09-05 CompactFlash Storage: Toshiba Exceria Pro—Fast and Reliable
Larger drives are faster..
Various types of RAID setups..
Six bay storage solution with RAID-0/1/4/5/10 or non-RAID..
Eight bay storage solution with RAID-0/1/4/5/10 or non-RAID..
Big Fast Hard Drives, 2021 and Later.
Eight bays for HDD, SSD plus PCIe Card and Ports.
Dual-drive Thunderbolt + USB3 user-selectable RAID..
RAID reliability in easy to configure 5-drive enclosure for full-size hard drives..
Many brands of solid state drives put on a good show when new, but some degrade with use..
2019-01-19 Testing Six Samples of Toshiba 14TB MG07ACA Enterprise Class Hard Drive
2017-04-15 Deals at OWC / MacSales.com
2016-04-02 Deal: 3TB Hard Drives for $90
2016-01-12 Price Drop on 4TB Internal SSD for 2013 Mac Pro, 6TB Hard Drives, 1TB SSDs, USB3 Hub
2015-11-11 OWC Deals: 4TB and 6TB Hard Drives, 32GB Memory for Mac Pro 2009-2012
2014-11-26 OWC Holiday Deals
2014-10-18 Capacity Utilization vs Speed: that 5th Terabyte on 5TB and 6TB Hard Drives
2014-10-17 Capacity Utilization vs Speed, which is faster, 4TB, 5TB or 6TB Hard Drive?
2014-10-16 Hard Drives: Capacity Utilization vs Speed aka “4TB or 5TB or 6TB Hard Drives?”
2014-08-29 OWC Labor Day Specials
2014-02-12 Is a 4TB Enterprise-Grade Hard Disk Drive Faster than a 3TB Consumer-Grade HDD For RAID?
2013-10-02 Prices Drop a Little: Toshiba 3TB Hard Drives + OWC Mercury Accelsior PCie SSD
2013-07-13 Defrag or Upgrade to Faster/Larger? (Lightroom, Aperture, etc)
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)