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2023-06-03 TESTED: OWC Atlas Pro, OWC Atlas Ultra SDXC Card Speed, with/without Encryption
2023-06-01 How to Create an Encrypted Volume on an SSD or Camera Card
2023-05-30 Camera Cards for Wallet Backups — SDXC vs CFExpress Type B, APFS Encryption
2023-05-16 Reader Question: APFS or HFS for Hard Drive Backup?
2023-04-12 Data Loss by Failing To Backup
2023-03-30 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 3.0 fc20
2022-12-03 OWC Deals: Load up on HUGE Storage, Max-Out Memory, etc
2022-08-29 Hard Drives: When a More Expensive Drive Costs a Lot Less
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2023-06-02 Accepted OWC Brand Ambassador for OWC Atlas Camera Cards
2023-05-30 What Capacity Camera Cards for Field Work? Bigger is Always Better, Here’s Why
2023-05-30 Camera Cards for Wallet Backups
2023-04-28 Got One: Deeply Discounted Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max + Monterey vs Ventura
2023-03-31 Using 4TB USB-C SSDs for Photo/Video Backup, Which One? (Clear Choice!)
2023-03-17 Ideal Stuff for Photography/Video Storage: Samsung T7 2TB SSD + 20TB/22TB Hard Drives
2022-12-05 Sony A7R V: Costly Bad Design for Pixel Shift — Disallows Lossless Compressed RAW
2022-12-03 OWC Deals: Load up on HUGE Storage, Max-Out Memory, etc
2022-04-14 IntegrityChecker Java for Windows Now Available for Download
2021-10-12 Portable SSDs for Travel Storage and Especially Backup
2020-12-28 Some of my Favorite Stuff From OWC
2020-12-28 Some of my Favorite Stuff From OWC
2020-12-09 Backup Battery Power During a Power Outage, Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
Apple 2022 MacBook Pro M2 Max
World’s fastest laptop, beats nearly all desktops..
Apple 2021 MacBook Pro M1 Max
Trouncing Intel-based laptops and desktops alike..
Apple iMac 5K (October 2020)
Rocking fast iMac with 8 cores and up to 128GB..
Apple iMac 5K (March 2019)
Rocking fast iMac with 8 cores and up to 128GB..
Apple Mac mini (November 2018)
True desktop-class performance..
Apple Mac Pro (December 2019)
Workhorse desktop tower..
Apple MacBook Pro Retina 16-inch (October 2019)
Desktop Class Performance, memory, SSD..
Apple MacBook Pro Retina (July 2018)
Vastly improved performance over 2017 model, 6 CPU Cores..
Apple 12-Inch MacBook (2016)
An iPad-sized laptop, refreshed..
backup
Protecting your data from drive failures, theft, fire, flood, and dinosaurs..
Cloning
How to utilize cloning for backup and other chores..
Understanding Storage and Hard Drives
How to erase and partition drives..
Using Apple Time Machine for Backup
How to use Apple Time Machine for Data Safety.
- Using Time Machine for Data Safety
- Configuring Time Machine
- Choosing a Time Machine Backup Drive
- Time Machine BUG: Silent Exclusion of Volumes
- Restoring Files with Time Machine
- Best Practices with Time Machine
- Optimizing Time Machine
- Time Machine and Backup Tips
- Starting a Time Machine Backup When Desired
- Excluding Items from Time Machine Backup
- Using Time Machine with Adobe Lightroom
RAID
Various types of RAID setups..
Data Safety with RAID-1 Mirror
Protect your data with a fault-tolerant RAID-1 Mirror..
About Using Software RAID
Reasons for using software RAID, making the choice of RAID type, etc..
Software RAID with SoftRAID
Making software RAID volumes..
Promise Pegasus J4 Thunderbolt 4-Drive Enclosure
SSDs or hard drives for fast single-drive or RAID volumes in a portable enclosure..
Thunderbolt peripherals
Reviews of Thunderbolt products..
OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dock
Two-Drive Hardware RAID plus USB ports, SD slot, video, gigabit.
OWC ThunderBay 8
Eight bay storage solution with RAID-0/1/4/5/10 or non-RAID..
OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8
Eight bays for HDD, SSD plus PCIe Card and Ports.
OWC Thunderbay IV / 4 Thunderbolt Enclosure
High performance with hard drives or SSDs..
OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual Thunderbolt / USB3
Dual-drive Thunderbolt + USB3 user-selectable RAID..
CalDigit T3 3-Drive Thunderbolt Enclosure
Three drives in a high-grade enclosure..
Drobo 5D with Thunderbolt or USB3
RAID reliability in easy to configure 5-drive enclosure for full-size hard drives..
Apple 2017 iMac Pro
High-end computing moves to the iMac form factor..
Apple 2015 iMac 5K
5K Display, blazingly fast SSD.
Understanding Thunderbolt and USB3 Performance with the 2013 Mac Pro
Using the right ports is critical to performance..
Transitioning to the 2013 Mac Pro
Peripherals and add-ons forexisting hardware..
How To Guides
How to perform useful tasks and upgrades..
Setting Up Your Mac
Suggestions for setting up your Mac for performance and data safety..
Digital Camera Related
Camera cards and readers..
Upgrading Your Mac
When and Why to Upgrade Your Mac..
Command Line Time Savers
Useful tasks at the command line in Terminal..
Optimizing Photoshop CS4 Performance
How to configure a Mac to maximize Photoshop CS3/CS4 performance..
Choosing and Configuring a Mac
An in-depth look at how to find the right Mac setup for you.
How to Buy / What to Buy
Nuts and bolts of buying a Mac, and recommended extras..
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
Special Report: Upgrade Now or Wait?.
Fast and Reliable Hardware RAID
How fast and reliable can RAID-0, RAID-5 and RAID-6 go using an 8-drive mini-SAS box and a hardware RAID card?.
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?.
Optimizing Mac Application Performance
Optimizing specific application performance..
OWC Mercury Accelsior PCIe RAID SSD
Ultra-fast solid state storage with hardware RAID for a Mac Pro in a PCIe slot..
OWC Mercury Electra 960GB 3G SSD
Huge capacity in a speedy SATA SSD..
Solid State Drives, Various
SSDs and thumb drives..
OWC SSDs, Various
Various SATA and USB SSDs..
Solid State Drives (SSD)
Choosing and using solid state drives..
Apple Mac Mini (Late 2012)
Apple’s first USB3 MacMini..
Apple 12-Inch MacBook (2015)
An iPad-sized laptop..
Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch Quad-Core (June 2012)
Apple’s 2012 MacBook Pro (non Retina)..
OWC Portable Dual-Drive RAID-0 or RAID-1 Mini Enclosures
Dual-drive externals for travel or compact backup..
- OWC Dual-drive Enclosures Overview
- OWC Dual-drive Features
- OWC Dual-drive Power Supply Options
- OWC Dual-drive Ergonomics
- Performance on Mac Pro with eSATA
- Performance on Mac Pro with Firewire 800
- Performance on MacBook Pro with eSATA
- Performance on MacBook Pro with Firewire 800
- OWC Dual-drive Conclusions
Drives and Expansion and Various
Reviews of various hardware and software..
Mac Pro Early 2009 (Nehalem)
Configuring and optimizing..
Desktop Hard Drives
Performance and use..
HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8
Outstanding high-capacity enterprise hard drive..
ioSafe N2 Fireproof and Waterproof NAS
Network attached storage with fire and flood protection..
- ioSafe N2 NAS Overview
- ioSafe N2 NAS Ethernet Connection
- ioSafe N2 NAS Software Interface
- Monitoring Performance on ioSafe N2 NAS
- Software and Services
- Physical Drive Installation
- Drive-Swap Experience Report
- Using the ioSafe N2 as a Backup via Cloning
- Backup Speed Cloning 245GB to a Disk Image
- ioSafe 1513 5-to-15 Bay NAS
Core Rot at Apple
The worrisome decline of OS X quality and integrity..
Older storage interfaces
Modern Macs use USB3 and Thunderbolt..
Fusion How To
Using Apple’s Fusion drive technology..
Blog posts
2023
2023-06-03 TESTED: OWC Atlas Pro, OWC Atlas Ultra SDXC Card Speed, with/without Encryption
2023-06-01 How to Create an Encrypted Volume on an SSD or Camera Card
2023-05-30 Camera Cards for Wallet Backups — SDXC vs CFExpress Type B, APFS Encryption
2023-05-16 Reader Question: APFS or HFS for Hard Drive Backup?
2023-04-12 Data Loss by Failing To Backup
2023-03-30 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 3.0 fc20
2022
2022-12-03 OWC Deals: Load up on HUGE Storage, Max-Out Memory, etc
2022-08-29 Hard Drives: When a More Expensive Drive Costs a Lot Less
2022-05-07 Validating Backup Volumes is Essential, Right-After and Later Too!
2022-02-22 Apple iCloud Might Eject Your Files, Eliminating them From Your Backups
2021
2021-12-16 Why Use IntegrityChecker Java for Data Integrity?
2021-11-26 OWC Mercury Pro U.2 Dual for up to 16TB U.2 SSD, or 64TB NVMe M.2
2021-10-19 Storage and Accessories by OWC Apple 14/16-inch MacBook Pros M1 Pro/M1 Max
2021-10-18 Apple 14/16-inch MacBook Pros Here, with M1 Max or M1Pro CPU: What You Need to Know
2021-10-12 Portable SSDs for Travel Storage and Especially Backup
2021-10-08 IntegrityChecker Java: Simultaneous Data Verification on any Number of Hard Drives or SSDs
2021-10-04 macOS Big Sur Locks Me Out of my 2019 Mac Pro after Kernel Panic, Repudiating my Login Password
2021-10-04 Checking for Data Corruption after macOS Hoses Your System
2021-07-30 Separate Your Data from System and Applications on the Boot Drive Using an APFS Volume
2021-07-22 OWC Introduces Envoy Pro SX Thunderbolt Bus-Powered Portable SSD
2021-03-07 HOT! the OWC Thunderbolt Hub Delivers Unprecedented Rock-Solid Thunderbolt, a mini review
2021-01-29 Installing an 18TB Hard Drive into the OWC Mercury Elite Pro USB 3.2 Enclosure
2021-01-29 How-To: Formatting a new Hard Drive or SSD in Apple Disk Utility
2021-01-12 Backing-up All Your Stuff: an 18TB Hard Drive installed in OWC Mercury Elite Pro USB 3.2 Enclosure
2020
2020-12-28 Some of my Favorite Stuff From OWC
2020-11-27 Apple Spyware in macOS Big Sur Cannot be Disabled (“sneak.berlin: Your Computer Isn’t Yours”)
2020-10-01 OWC Introduces OWC Mercury Pro LTO Tape Archiving Solution
2020-02-01 macOS Catalina 10.15.3 Disables all of my Samsung T5 Backup Drives
2019
2019-11-17 Why I Might Have to Abandon the 2019 iMac 5K
2019-05-27 Detecting Corruption / Validating Data Integrity Over Time and Across Drives and Backup/Restore
2019-05-07 Switched to macOS Mojave, out of Necessity with 2019 iMac 5K
2019-05-02 Upgraded my 2015 MacBook Pro Retina Apple Flash Drive to the 2TB OWC Aura Pro X2 SSD
2019-02-25 Better Progress Indicator in Carbon Copy Cloner
2019-02-09 Apple 2017 iMac 5K is a Terrific Machine, but Too Often It Impedes My Work
2019-02-07 Banishing the Drone of Spinning Hard Drives: and Fans: Moving to 8TB OWC Thunderblade SSD
2019-01-27 How to Fix Damaged File Dates (RAW or JPEG or movies) with exiftool
2018
2018-12-25 Data Integrity Over Time, and with OS Changes
2018-12-11 Using Apple FileVault for Data Security
2018-11-18 Beware of Phishing Based on Fear of Secret Porn Behavior and Real Password Compromise
2018-09-29 Data Integrity Over Time, and with OS Changes
2018-09-03 Video Presentation: Configuring the 2018 MacBook Pro as as Desktop Replacement
2018-02-24 What Can an iMac Pro 18 Core Do? Destroy Its Boot Volume Rendering Itself Unbootable
2018-02-14 What Can an iMac Pro 18 Core Do? Coming Next Week to Find Out
2017
2017-11-27 Tips on Using Apple Time Machine, Tips on Backup
2017-11-27 Time Machine and APFS: Local Backups
2017-11-27 HOT! OWC Envoy Pro EX 2TB Thunderbolt 3 SSD Now In Stock
2017-11-23 Why I Probably Will Never Buy a Mac Pro Again
2017-09-17 macOS High Sierra: Apple’s Technote on APFS is Both Confusing and Possibly Incorrect
2017-09-08 My Sprinter Photography Adventure Van Project: Which Mac?
2017-07-01 Apple Core Rot Strikes Again: Time Machine Wipes Out Other Backups and Fails to Restore Properly
2017-06-13 Apple Photos: Bad Idea + Downloading Images from iPhone/iPad/Other Devices using Apple Preview
2017-05-15 On Ransomware
2017-05-14 Is Apple’s Time Machine Broken Yet Again
2017-01-29 Apple’s Time Machine Obliterates my Data When It is Most Needed (Restore)
2016
2016-11-02 2016 MacBook Pro: Firewire 800 Compatibility
2016-11-01 2016 MacBook Pro: What Options I Ordered, and Why
2016-10-27 macOS Sierra 10.12.1: Data Loss + Breaking Backup Protocols is Now a Feature?
2016-08-31 Viewing and Backing up Files from a Digital Camera on a Trip
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'
2016-05-26 The Drive I Use for Backup in the Field
2016-04-05 Thunderbolt on OS X: Spontaneous Drive Disconnect
2016-03-27 What a Bad Hard Drive Fails Like when Running diglloydTools 'fill-volume'
2016-03-07 OS X Malware: Ransomware Encrypts Data, Demands Payment to Recover
2016-01-12 Price Drop on 4TB Internal SSD for 2013 Mac Pro, 6TB Hard Drives, 1TB SSDs, USB3 Hub
2016-01-09 Reader Question: Backup Drive for a RAID
2015
2015-12-27 Archiving Images and Data
2015-12-20 $1799 ($500 off) for Excellent MacBook Pro 15", Recommended Peripherals for Storage, Backup
2015-12-07 Reconfiguring Storage to use 8TB Drives, Data Integrity Critical
2015-12-06 Time Machine does not show all the items that are excluded!
2015-12-04 Best Starter Camera Deal?
2015-11-18 Cool New Product: OWC Drive Dock Takes 2 Bare Drives (HDD or SSD) and is Thunderbolt 2!
2015-11-12 One of the Most Confusing Finder Preferences
2015-11-11 Clone Backups on Steroids
2015-10-15 Reader Question: How to Approach El Capitan
2015-10-15 OS X El Capitan Breaks Time Machine
2015-09-02 OWC Thunderbay can be Partitioned into Multiple RAID-5 Volumes
2015-08-16 For Nearly Two Years, the OWC Envoy Pro EX Delivers the Portability and Backup Speed For Travel
2015-08-16 Apple ID Account Hassles Continue
2015-06-18 Mini Review: 2015 Apple MacBook
2015-06-07 Big Capacity for your Digital Camera: Lexar Professional 128GB Cards
2015-05-13 Savings on Various Macs (limited time)
2015-05-03 Detecting Corruption / Validating Data Integrity Over Time and Across Drives and Backup/Restore
2015-05-01 2013 Mac Pro 6-core for $3175
2015-04-02 Time Machine Running Slow and Low on Space? Exclude Older Items.
2015-03-30 Hard Drives: Odds of Failure with Time, When to Upgrade/Replace
2015-03-26 Hard Drives: Staying the Course with Higher Performance and up to 8TB Capacity
2015-03-25 Which Mac to Get? How to Backup? Planning for Growth.
2015-02-27 Which Mac to Get? How to Backup? Planning for Growth.
2015-02-22 An Example of When More CPU Cores Mean Responsive vs Sluggish
2015-02-17 My Mac Consulting Can Save You Money and Protect Your Data
2015-01-17 What’s the Most Important Aspect of Your Mac?
2015-01-09 Detecting Corruption / Validating Data Integrity Over Time and Across Drives and Backup/Restore
2014
2014-11-11 Configuring and Backing Up High Capacity Multi-Drive Storage
2014-08-05 OWC Offers Thunderbay in RAID-5 Edition
2014-07-30 Just Did a Big Drive Reconfig: How Did I Verify Data Integrity?
2014-06-11 Detecting Corruption / Validating Data Integrity Over Time and Across Drives and Backup/Restore
2014-06-03 Awesome: SoftRAID with RAID-5 rebuild
2014-05-17 Safely Recording and Storing Video Footage: a Few Pointers
2014-03-14 2013 Mac Pro: Which one to Choose, How to Store Image Files, Backup, etc
2014-03-08 Housing Data Safely: Dual OWC Thunderbay 4-Bay Units for Performance, Capacity, Redundancy, Backup
2014-02-05 “You Saved My Bacon” (Always keep 3 backups)
2014-01-20 2013 Mac Pro: Workflow, Backup Advice
2014-01-11 Partition an SSD / Flash Drive or Not?
2014-01-05 How to Clone a Volume, and Cloning as a Backup Strategy
2014-01-05 Dangerous (to your data) Misconceptions About Backup
2014-01-04 Why Use RAID? Is RAID for Backup? What is Fault Tolerance
2014-01-01 How Fast is the Internal PCIe SSD in the MacBook Pro Retina 'Crystal Well'?
2013
2013-12-17 Gift Ideas for the Computer User
2013-10-07 Are Your Backup Drives Still Functional? Are Your Files Subtly Damaged?
2013-09-17 ioSafe N2: A Cornucopia of Functionality
2013-09-16 ioSafe N2 Fireproof and Waterproof Dual-Drive NAS
2013-07-12 How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups
2013-07-05 Promise Pegasus J4 Thunderbolt: Recommended High Performance Config *with* Built-in Backup
2013-06-29 How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups
2013-06-12 2013 Apple Mac Pro: Thoughts on a Switchover from Existing Tower
2013-06-11 Detecting Corruption / Validating Data Integrity Over Time and Across Drives and Backup/Restore
2013-04-14 A Robust Backup Process
2013-04-05 One Backup (only) is a Disaster Waiting to Happen
2013-03-26 How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups
2013-02-21 Apple 'Time Machine' and Backup
2013-02-18 How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups
2012
2012-12-15 What’s Most Important for Your Mac?
2012-12-04 Time Machine Bug — Is Your Data Being Backed Up?
2012-11-04 MacMini — Turnkey Upgrade with 16GB and Fast 6G SSD
2012-11-03 MacMini — Hard Drive vs SSD
2012-10-23 Analysis of the Oct 2012 MacMini
2012-10-08 How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups
2012-09-05 A Fast and Silent Internal 960GB Clone Volume in my Mac Pro: OWC’s Mercury Electra Max SSD
2012-08-07 Apple’s Time Machine Can Silently Exclude Key Volumes from Backup
2012-08-07 A Fast and Silent Internal 960GB Clone Volume in my Mac Pro
2012-07-11 An Internal 960GB Clone Backup Volume
2012-06-21 OWC Specs Drive Mechanisms in its Externals
2012-06-12 MacBook Pro Retina vs MacBook Pro 17" (or 13" or 15")
2012-03-19 It’s About Time for a New Mac Pro
2012-02-16 Hitachi Coolspin 4TB Hard Drive
2011
2011-12-23 An SSD-based MPG Pro Workstation Design with Fault-tolerant Time Machine Backup
2011-12-20 Stocking Stuffers and Gifts
2011-10-09 Backup and Backup Drives for Photographers
2011-10-05 My Mac Consulting Can Save You Money and Protect Your Data
2011-08-13 My Killer-fast Mac Pro System Based on Solid State Drives (SSD)
2011-08-09 Apple Lion Recovery Disk Assistant — But There is a BETTER WAY
2011-06-07 The All-SSD Mac Pro
2011-04-01 Disable Spotlight for Faster Backups
2011-03-28 How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups
2011-03-15 Backing Up Your Mac: Keep It Safe, and No, Time Machine is NOT Enough
2011-03-13 Making a RAID-1 Mirror with SoftRAID 4
2011-01-05 SPECIAL DEAL on a 2009 Mac Pro 2.93GHz as an MPG Pro Workstation
2011-01-04 Why Is My Backup Taking so #$*#$#*$* Long?
2010
2010-12-29 Two Compact and Portable Choices for Mirrored or Striped External Storage
2010-09-29 How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups — User Comment
2010-09-21 How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups
2010-07-28 Pricing and Valuing the iMac Against the Mac Pro
2010-07-17 Carbon Copy Cloner 3.3.3 Cautionary Advice When Cloning to a Larger Volume
2010-07-08 NewerTech StoraDrive™ for Bare Hard Drive Storage
2010-06-25 Converting to a Larger Time Machine volume, and a Faster One Too!
2010-06-15 Cost Effective Reliable Backup and Storage
2010-05-25 Using Apple Time Machine for Backup
2010-03-31 OWC and DIGLLOYD offer ultra-high-performance MPG Pro Workstations