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2023-04-19 WSJ: The iPhone Setting Thieves Use to Lock You Out of Your Apple Account

2023-02-26 Legal Tort Liability to Require Email for Login ID?

2023-02-25 WSJ: A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life

2023-02-25 Using a Password Manager or Any Stored Passwords on a Portable Device is a Terrible Idea?

2023-02-25 Apple iOS: Your Digital Life Stolen if Passcode Compromised? How it Works

2023-02-25 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) for Securing your Computer of Phone or Tablet Logins

2021-10-26 OWC Announces Release of SoftRAID 6.2 for Mac, Compatibility with macOS 12 Monterey and Support for APFS Volumes

2021-10-11 diglloydTools MemoryTester Finds Bad Memory in Server Today, Prompted by IntegrityChecker Flagging Corrupt Files

2021-10-11 Memory Fails in Web Server, with Sporadic Problems Making the Cause Mysterious, Until Today

2021-09-27 How To Prevent System Sleep while a Terminal Command is Running: caffeinate

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2023-05-25 Overview of Voigtlander FE 50mm f/2 APO-Lanthar Aspherical

2023-04-16 Will the Leica M11 Monochrom Avoid the Nasty Black-Dots-White-Spots Issue of the M10m?

2023-04-16 Pentax K-3 III Monochrome

2023-03-21 Amazon.com’s DPReview.com to Close

2023-02-02 ChatGPT: Computational Photography

2023-01-31 All Too Often: the Garbage Image Quality of Camera Phones with HEIC or JPEG

2023-01-27 Taibbi on Pervasive Media Fraud: Years of Invented Bullshit News Stories

2023-01-15 How Can We Trust Institutions That Lied?

2022-12-15 How much is Sony Botched Camera and Software Design $Costing You? Is Adobe DNG Converter Viable? The Sony Workflow TAX

2022-09-10 CDC Admits Post-Vaccine Myocarditis Concerns That Were Labeled Covid Misinformation Are Legit

2022-09-07 Announced: Hasselblad X2D-100C with 100 Megapixel Sensor, IBIS, Phase-Detect AF

2022-07-12 DSLR is Done

2022-03-20 Ultra Sharp: Mamiya 150mm f/4.5 + FotodioX Pro Fusion Smart Adapter for Fujifilm Medium Format

2022-02-19 Reader Comment, Christopher Campbell: Optimizing the Digitization of Paintings and Drawings

2021-12-26 Fujifilm GFX100S Panorama with GF 30mm f/3.5: White Mountains High Country

Apple 12-Inch MacBook (2016)

An iPad-sized laptop, refreshed..

1. 2016 Apple MacBook: Overview

RAID

Various types of RAID setups..

1. Speed: RAID 1 Mirroring

OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual USB-C

2-bay storage solution with hardware RAID options.

1. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual: Performance with 2 X 18TB Hard Drives
2. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual: Performance with 36TB RAID-0
3. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual: Aggregate Read/Write Bandwidth

Big Fast Hard Drives

Big Fast Hard Drives, 2021 and Later.

1. Western Digital 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 Hard Drive
2. Seagate Iron Wolf Pro 20TB Hard Drive
3. Western Digital Purpose 22TB Hard Drive

OWC Thunderblade SSD

Ultra high speed robust pro-grade external SSD..

1. OWC Thunderblade Thunderbolt 3 SSD: Overview

OWC Thunderbay IV / 4 Thunderbolt Enclosure

High performance with hard drives or SSDs..

1. OWC Thunderbay IV / 4 Thunderbolt Enclosure

CalDigit T3 3-Drive Thunderbolt Enclosure

Three drives in a high-grade enclosure..

1. CalDigit T3 Overview
2. CalDigit T3 Drive Modules
3. CalDigit T3: 3-HDD RAID-0 Stripe
4. CalDigit T3: 3-HDD RAID-1 Mirror
5. CalDigit T3: 3-HDD RAID-5 (Striping with Parity)
6. CalDigit T3: 3-HDD RAID-5 vs RAID-0

Apple Dec 2013 Mac Pro

Choosing among 4/6/8/12 cores, GPUs, memory, flash..

1. 2013 Mac Pro: 4 CPU Cores Can Constrain Your Workflow

Understanding Thunderbolt and USB3 Performance with the 2013 Mac Pro

Using the right ports is critical to performance..

1. 2013 Mac Pro: Thunderbolt Performance Tips

Transitioning to the 2013 Mac Pro

Peripherals and add-ons forexisting hardware..

1. The MPG 2013 Mac Pro Working System

Connecting Stuff

USB3, networking, and add-on devices other than storage..

1. Expanding USB3 Ports: TRIPP LITE 7+1 USB3 with iPad Charging
2. CalDigit Thunderbolt Station

Password Managers and Encryption

Use high quality passwords, identities, logins conveniently..

1. Syncing the 1Password Vault

Upgrading Your Mac

When and Why to Upgrade Your Mac..

1. Upgrading Mac Pro Internal Drives

Optimizing Photoshop CS4 Performance

How to configure a Mac to maximize Photoshop CS3/CS4 performance..

1. Test results for Photoshop CS4 on Mac Pro
2. Test results for Photoshop CS4 on MacBook Pro

Optimizing Other Photography Software

Speedups for working with images..

1. Optimizing Canon Digital Photo Professional

Choosing and Configuring a Mac

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

1. Mac Pro Memory: Choosing, Installing, Testing

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?.

1. CiDesign iStoragePro iT8SAE Enclosure
2. Atto/iStoragePro Speed with Western Digital RE4 vs Hitachi 7K2000

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 RAW-file Processing with Canon Digital Photo Professional

OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 3G Solid State Drives

Fast and durable, enterprise-grade solid state drives..

1. OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 3G 115GB SSD (25nm Flash)

Solid State Drives (SSD)

Choosing and using solid state drives..

1. Intel X25-E SSD
2. Intel X25-M SSD on MacBook Pro

Apple Mac Mini (Late 2012)

Apple’s first USB3 MacMini..

1. 2012 Mac Mini

Apple 12-Inch MacBook (2015)

An iPad-sized laptop..

1. 2015 Apple MacBook: Overview
2. 2015 Apple MacBook: SSD vs 2015 MacBook Pro Retina

2010 MacBook Air for Photographers?

How does the 2010 MacBook Air fare in the context of photography?.

1. MacBook Air 2010 — A Photographer’s View

Drives and Expansion and Various

Reviews of various hardware and software..

1. CalDigit PCIe 2-Port USB3 Card for Mac Pro
2. NewerTech MAXPower eSATA 6G + USB3 PCIe Card
3. 2009 Apple MacBook Pro unibody 17
4. Sonnet Tempo SATA Pro ExpressCard/34

Desktop Hard Drives

Performance and use..

1. Hitachi 3TB Deskstar 7K3000
2. Western Digital RE4 2TB Enterprise Grade 'RAID Edition' HDD
3. Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB hard drive
4. Hitachi 2TB Deskstar 7K2000 / Ultrastar A7K2000
5. Western Digital RE4-GP 2TB
6. Low-power 2TB consumer hard drives
7. Hitachi 1TB Deskstar E7K1000 Saturn.E
8. Hitachi 1TB Deskstar 7K1000
9. Seagate 1TB Barracuda ES_2
10. Seagate 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11

Laptop Hard Drives

Technical performance data..

1. Hitachi 320GB Travelstar 7K320
2. Western Digital 320GB Scorpio Black
3. Western Digital 500GB Scorpio Blue

Older storage interfaces

Modern Macs use USB3 and Thunderbolt..

1. Introduction to Storage Performance

Blog posts

2023

2023-04-19 WSJ: The iPhone Setting Thieves Use to Lock You Out of Your Apple Account

2023-02-26 Legal Tort Liability to Require Email for Login ID?

2023-02-25 WSJ: A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life

2023-02-25 Using a Password Manager or Any Stored Passwords on a Portable Device is a Terrible Idea?

2023-02-25 Apple iOS: Your Digital Life Stolen if Passcode Compromised? How it Works

2023-02-25 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) for Securing your Computer of Phone or Tablet Logins

2021

2021-10-26 OWC Announces Release of SoftRAID 6.2 for Mac, Compatibility with macOS 12 Monterey and Support for APFS Volumes

2021-10-11 diglloydTools MemoryTester Finds Bad Memory in Server Today, Prompted by IntegrityChecker Flagging Corrupt Files

2021-10-11 Memory Fails in Web Server, with Sporadic Problems Making the Cause Mysterious, Until Today

2021-09-27 How To Prevent System Sleep while a Terminal Command is Running: caffeinate

2021-09-27 Corrupted .git/index File: “git fatal: unordered stage entries in index”

2021-05-13 NewerTech Announces USB-C to HDMI And USB-C to DisplayPort Adapters with up to 8K Video

2021-02-26 TESTED: OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual USB-C Enclosure, Aggregate Bandwidth with Multiple Drives

2021-02-23 TESTED: OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual USB-C Enclosure, RAID-0 Striping Performance

2021-02-22 TESTED: OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual USB-C Enclosure

2021-02-01 TESTED: Western Digital 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550 hard drive in OWC Mercury Elite Pro USB 3.2 enclosure

2021-01-29 Installing an 18TB Hard Drive into the OWC Mercury Elite Pro USB 3.2 Enclosure

2020

2020-07-12 OWC ThunderBay FLEX 8: Eight Bays for Hard Drives, U.2 NVMe SSDs, Hard Drives or SATA SSDs — Now Shipping

2019

2019-05-02 Upgraded my 2015 MacBook Pro Retina Apple Flash Drive to the 2TB OWC Aura Pro X2 SSD

2019-01-29 OWC ThunderBlade Gen 2: up to 8TB SSD, Runs Cooler and Faster at Lower Cost

2018

2018-07-25 OWC Docks Confirmed To Work with 2018 MacBook Pro

2018-07-04 OWC Express 4M2: 4-Slot M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure

2017

2017-04-16 New Thunderbolt 3 Products from OWC

2017-02-28 “Our digital fingerprints are everywhere. How do we protect ourselves?” — Stanford Engineering

2017-01-23 Intel “Baby Canyon” NUCs with Kaby Lake and Thunderbolt 3 and Lots More

2016

2016-08-31 Viewing and Backing up Files from a Digital Camera on a Trip

2015

2015-12-06 Time Machine does not show all the items that are excluded!

2015-12-04 The Weird Stuff that Sells for Gifts

2015-12-04 Best Starter Camera Deal?

2015-12-03 iMac 5K vs Mac Pro: Iridient Developer: Convert 50-Megapixel Images to 16-bit TIF

2015-11-30 Cyber Monday Deals at OWC and B&H Photo

2015-11-06 Apple’s DCI(P3) Color Gamut Improves Upon Longstanding Marginal Gamut, Yet Makes Little Sense in Context for Amateurs or Pros

2015-06-18 Mini Review: 2015 Apple MacBook

2015-02-12 With the Coming of the Apple Watch, Digital Monitoring is the Next Big Thing

2015-02-09 Lexar 64GB 2000X SDXC Digital Camera Storage Card

2014

2014-03-17 Attaching a Display to the CalDigit Thunderbolt Station

2014-03-14 CalDigit Thunderbolt Station Adds Support for iPhone/iPad Charging + Apple Superdrive

2014-03-06 2013 Mac Pro: Upgraded to 3.3 GHz 8-Core

2014-02-20 Fast USB Digital Camera Card Readers

2014-02-17 Expanding USB3 Ports

2014-02-12 Switched to the 2013 Mac pro

2014-01-01 Reviewed: CalDigit Thunderbolt Station

2013

2013-06-11 Reader Perspective: Gear Improvements Over Time

2013-05-23 The Implications of a Centralized App Store and Centralization in General: Single Point of Failure

2013-05-08 Adobe Creative Cloud: Reader Comments

2013-05-06 Adobe Clouds Software Choice (Adobe Creative Cloud Only Going Forward)

2013-05-01 The Commercialization of Digital Spying

2012

2012-12-31 USB3 on the Mac Pro: CalDigit PCIe 2-Port USB3 Card

2012-10-23 Analysis of the Oct 2012 MacMini

2012-05-05 Three Web Sites by Lloyd Chambers

2012-02-16 What Are the Implications for Application Signing?

2011

2011-06-01 Three Web Sites by Lloyd Chambers

2011-01-15 Hard Drive Noise

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

2010

2010-11-11 Tested: Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 vs Western Digital RE4 in iStoragePro SAS Enclosure w/ Atto R380

2010-07-16 Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB Hard Drive. Fast!

2010-07-10 Fastest Ever! Western Digital RE4 2TB Enterprise Grade 'RAID Edition' hard drive w/ 64MB Cache