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An iPad-sized laptop, refreshed..
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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 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
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?
2021-10-11 Memory Fails in Web Server, with Sporadic Problems Making the Cause Mysterious, Until Today
2021-09-27 Corrupted .git/index File: “git fatal: unordered stage entries in index”
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2023-09-22 Fujifilm GFX100 II: Overview
2023-09-22 Fujifilm GFX100 II: Press Release
2023-09-12 Fujifilm GF 30mm f/5.6 TS and Fujifilm GF 110mm f/5.6 TS: How Useful are the Tilt/Shift Functions?
2023-09-12 Fujifilm GFX100 II: Many Improvements Even for Still Photography
2023-08-25 The Crapification of Everything
2023-06-02 Reducing Moiré in Nikon Z8 with Adobe Enhance Details
2023-06-01 Introduction to Nikon NIKKOR Z 14-24mm f/2.8 S
2023-05-25 Overview of Voigtlander FE 50mm f/2 APO-Lanthar Aspherical
2023-04-16 Pentax K-3 III Monochrome
2023-04-16 Will the Leica M11 Monochrom Avoid the Nasty Black-Dots-White-Spots Issue of the M10m?
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
RAID
Various types of RAID setups..
OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual USB-C
2-bay storage solution with hardware RAID options.
Big Fast Hard Drives
Big Fast Hard Drives, 2021 and Later.
OWC Thunderblade SSD
Ultra high speed robust pro-grade external SSD..
OWC Thunderbay IV / 4 Thunderbolt Enclosure
High performance with hard drives or SSDs..
CalDigit T3 3-Drive Thunderbolt Enclosure
Three drives in a high-grade enclosure..
Apple Dec 2013 Mac Pro
Choosing among 4/6/8/12 cores, GPUs, memory, flash..
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..
Connecting Stuff
USB3, networking, and add-on devices other than storage..
Password Managers and Encryption
Use high quality passwords, identities, logins conveniently..
Upgrading Your Mac
When and Why to Upgrade Your Mac..
Optimizing Photoshop CS4 Performance
How to configure a Mac to maximize Photoshop CS3/CS4 performance..
Optimizing Other Photography Software
Speedups for working with images..
Choosing and Configuring a Mac
An in-depth look at how to find the right Mac setup for you.
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?.
OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 3G Solid State Drives
Fast and durable, enterprise-grade solid state drives..
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..
2010 MacBook Air for Photographers?
How does the 2010 MacBook Air fare in the context of photography?.
Drives and Expansion and Various
Reviews of various hardware and software..
Desktop Hard Drives
Performance and use..
- Hitachi 3TB Deskstar 7K3000
- Western Digital RE4 2TB Enterprise Grade 'RAID Edition' HDD
- Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB hard drive
- Hitachi 2TB Deskstar 7K2000 / Ultrastar A7K2000
- Western Digital RE4-GP 2TB
- Low-power 2TB consumer hard drives
- Hitachi 1TB Deskstar E7K1000 Saturn.E
- Hitachi 1TB Deskstar 7K1000
- Seagate 1TB Barracuda ES_2
- Seagate 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11
Laptop Hard Drives
Technical performance data..
Older storage interfaces
Modern Macs use USB3 and Thunderbolt..
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 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
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?
2021
2021-10-11 Memory Fails in Web Server, with Sporadic Problems Making the Cause Mysterious, Until Today
2021-09-27 Corrupted .git/index File: “git fatal: unordered stage entries in index”
2021-09-27 How To Prevent System Sleep while a Terminal Command is Running: caffeinate
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
2021-01-29 Installing an 18TB Hard Drive into the OWC Mercury Elite Pro USB 3.2 Enclosure
2020
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 Best Starter Camera Deal?
2015-12-04 The Weird Stuff that Sells for Gifts
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
2015-06-18 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