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2023-05-16 Reader Question: APFS or HFS for Hard Drive Backup?

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2022-09-02 Too-Small Internal SSD? Fast External SSDs are a Great Way to Add Space

2022-08-29 Hard Drives: When a More Expensive Drive Costs a Lot Less

2022-08-21 TESTED: Seagate Iron Wolf Pro 20TB hard drive

2022-03-15 18TB Hard Drive only $299, Mad March Savings at OWC

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2023-04-04 Which High Capacity Hard Drive for Photos/Video? Best Value/Performance?

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

2022-03-15 18TB Hard Drive only $299, Mad March Savings at OWC

2021-02-01 TESTED: Big and Fast Hard Drive for Photography and Videography —  the Western Digital 18TB Ultrastar DC HC550

2021-01-29 Big and Fast Hard Drive for Photography and Videography

2020-12-28 Some of my Favorite Stuff From OWC

2020-12-28 Some of my Favorite Stuff From OWC

2020-06-10 Reader Question: File Format Longevity, Particularly for Digital RAW Files

2020-01-02 MAJOR Performance Improvements to diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java version 1.1b10

2019-08-01 Computer Storage for Photographers (August 2019)

2019-02-18 Delayed For Days: Hard Drive Horrors

2019-01-12 Reader Comment: Hard Drive Bad Sectors, Enterprise vs Consumer Drives

2019-01-11 Reader Comment: Hard Drive Error Rates

2018-06-22 OWC Hard Drive and SSD Savings

Apple MacBook Pro Retina 16-inch (October 2019)

Desktop Class Performance, memory, SSD..

  1. Configuring the 2019 MacBook Pro 16-inch as as Desktop Replacement

Apple MacBook Pro Retina (July 2018)

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

  1. 2018 MacBook Pro: Video Presentation: Configuring the 2018 MacBook Pro as as Desktop Replacement

Understanding Storage and Hard Drives

How to erase and partition drives..

  1. How to Partition Drives Into Multiple Volumes
  2. Validating a Hard Drive or SSD or RAID (DiskTester fill-volume)

Drive Capacity and Speed

Larger drives are faster..

  1. Why You Need More Space Than You You Need
  2. Larger Hard Drives Are Faster Than Smaller Ones
  3. The Fastest 2TB Volume is on a 4TB Drive
  4. 4/5/6TB Hard Drives: Higher Capacity Boosts Real-World Performance
  5. Optimizing Hard Drive Capacity for High Performance

RAID

Various types of RAID setups..

  1. Understanding Fault Tolerance
  2. Speed: RAID 1 Mirroring
  3. How to Create a Software RAID-0

Software RAID Performance with SoftRAID 5

High performance RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID-5, RAID-1+0..

  1. Single-Drive Performance with SoftRAID 5
  2. RAID-5 Performance with SoftRAID 5

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 — SSD Speed (Fast Hard Drives)
  2. Promise Pegasus J4 — Recommended Configuration

Thunderbolt peripherals

Reviews of Thunderbolt products..

  1. OWC Drive Dock: Thunderbolt + USB3 Connectivity Using Dual Bare Hard Drives or SSDs
  2. LaCie 2Big 20TB Thunderbolt 3 Storage Dock
  3. FirmTek ThunderTek/PX Q6G Thunderbolt to 4-Port eSATA
  4. OWC 30 Meter Optical Thunderbolt Cable: Does Length Matter for Performance?

OWC Thunderbay 4 Mini

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

  1. CPU Usage for RAID-0 vs RAID-4 or RAID-5

OWC 40TB SSD (in Thunderbay 4 Mini)

Ultra high flat-line performanc in 40 Terabyte capacity.

  1. OWC 40TB SSD

OWC Thunderbay 6

Six bay storage solution with RAID-0/1/4/5/10 or non-RAID..

  1. OWC Thunderbay 6: RAID-0 Performance
  2. OWC Thunderbay 6 vs Thunderbay 4: RAID-0 Performance Options
  3. OWC Thunderbay 6: RAID-5 Performance
  4. OWC Thunderbay 6 vs Thunderbay 4: RAID-5 Performance Options

OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dock

Two-Drive Hardware RAID plus USB ports, SD slot, video, gigabit.

  1. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dock: Overview
  2. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dock: Speed Across Capacity
  3. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dock: Speed vs Transfer Size
  4. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dock: SD Card Slot Speed

OWC ThunderBay 8

Eight bay storage solution with RAID-0/1/4/5/10 or non-RAID..

  1. OWC ThunderBay 8: Overview
  2. OWC ThunderBay 8: Examples of Various Configurations using SoftRAID
  3. OWC ThunderBay 8: RAID-0 vs RAID5 vs RAID10 Performance
  4. OWC ThunderBay 8: Speed Across Volume Capacity, RAID-0 vs RAID-5
  5. OWC ThunderBay 8: Speed vs Transfer size, RAID-0 vs RAID-5

OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual USB-C

2-bay storage solution with hardware RAID options.

  1. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual: Overview
  2. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual: Performance with 2 X 18TB Hard Drives
  3. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual: Performance with 36TB RAID-0
  4. 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 Thunderbay FLEX 8

Eight bays for HDD, SSD plus PCIe Card and Ports.

  1. OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8: Overview
  2. OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8: Configuration Possibilities
  3. OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8: Designing an OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8 Configuration for Still Photography or Videography
  4. OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8: HDD Speed Across Volume Capacity, RAID-0 vs RAID-5
  5. OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8: HDD Speed vs Transfer Size

OWC Thunderbay IV / 4 Thunderbolt Enclosure

High performance with hard drives or SSDs..

  1. OWC Thunderbay IV vs Thunderbay 4 (Thunderbolt vs Thunderbolt 2)
  2. RAID-0, RAID-5, RAID 1+0 Performance (SoftRAID, Thunderbolt v1)
  3. RAID-0 with 4/3/2 Drives (SoftRAID, Thunderbolt v1)
  4. RAID-5 with 4 / 3 Hard Drives (SoftRAID, Thunderbolt v1)
  5. RAID-1 Mirror (SoftRAID, Thunderbolt v1)

OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual Thunderbolt / USB3

Dual-drive Thunderbolt + USB3 user-selectable RAID..

  1. Overview of OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual

CalDigit T3 3-Drive Thunderbolt Enclosure

Three drives in a high-grade enclosure..

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

Drobo 5D with Thunderbolt or USB3

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

  1. Data Robotics DROBO 5D
  2. Drobo 5D Read/Write Performance
  3. Drobo 5D Read/Write Performance Across Capacity

Apple Dec 2013 Mac Pro

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

  1. 2013 Mac Pro: How and Why to Partition the PCIe Flash Drive

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
  2. 2013 Mac Pro: USB3 Performance Limitations

Transitioning to the 2013 Mac Pro

Peripherals and add-ons forexisting hardware..

  1. Transitioning to the 2013 Mac Pro
  2. Transition: Dual 4TB Hard Drives

How To Guides

How to perform useful tasks and upgrades..

  1. How to upgrade your system/boot drive
  2. How to detect a failing hard drive (SMART status)
  3. How to use a Mac Pro as a Robust File Server

Setting Up Your Mac

Suggestions for setting up your Mac for performance and data safety..

  1. Installing a Just-Right Mac System
  2. Separate Data from System and Applications
  3. High Performance Mac Configuration
  4. Testing Mac Memory and Drives

Comfort and Convenience

Connecting, quieting, arranging your Mac and devices..

  1. Isolating/Blocking Hard Drive Vibration, Especially on a Hardwood Desk or Floor

Upgrading Your Mac

When and Why to Upgrade Your Mac..

  1. Upgrades: Internal Hard Drive or Solid State Drive?
  2. MacBook Pro Upgrades
  3. Upgrading Mac Pro Internal Drives
  4. Upgrading Reliability and Backup
  5. Case Study: Upgrade a MacBook Pro to Banish Sluggishness
  6. Case Study: Upgrade a 2010 MacBook Pro for Photoshop Performance

Optimizing Photoshop CS5 Performance

The best hardware and configuration for Photoshop CS5..

  1. Speed Up Saving and Opening Photoshop CS5/CS4/CS3 Files
  2. Save Big Files 20X Faster With the DisallowFlateCompressedPSD Plugin
  3. Influence of Drive Speed on CS5 Big File Save Speed

Optimizing Photoshop CS4 Performance

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

  1. How to Configure Photoshop CS4 for best performance
  2. Test results for Photoshop CS4 on Mac Pro
  3. Test results for Photoshop CS4 on MacBook Pro
  4. Using Solid State Drives (SSD) for Photoshop CS4 Scratch
  5. Optimizing Photoshop CS4 on Apple MacBook Pro With Solid State Drives
  6. MacBook Pro Photoshop CS4 speed demon SSD
  7. Using a RAM disk as a Photoshop CS4 scratch disk
  8. Photoshop CS4 Performance Conclusions and Recommendations

Optimizing Mac Performance

Learn about Activity Monitor and understand how CPU cores, processes, memory use, and software scalability affect performance..

  1. Optimizing your Mac: Fast Hard Drive or SSD

Choosing and Configuring a Mac

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

  1. How to Select and Configure a Mac Pro
  2. How to Select and Configure a MacBook Pro
  3. How to Select and Configure an iMac
  4. Buying a Mac at the Apple Store
  5. Mac Boot Drive Dogma
  6. Simple and Cost-effective Backups for Mac
  7. My Mac Pro: An Example

How to Buy / What to Buy

Nuts and bolts of buying a Mac, and recommended extras..

  1. Buyer's Guide: Ordering a New Mac Pro
  2. Buyer's Guide: Setting up a Mac Pro
  3. Buyer's Guide: Multi-interface External Enclosures
  4. Buyer's Guide: eSATA Enclosures
  5. Buyer's Guide: Hard Drives for Mac Pro
  6. Recomended Vendor: OWC

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 Value Compared to Quad-Core iMac

Shootout: 8-core 2.93GHz or Quad-Core 3.33GHz?

Why 4 cores are often faster than 8!.

  1. Comparing Cores vs. Clock Speed (Introduction)

Optimizing the MacBook Pro Core i7

Maxing-out your MacBook Pro Core i7 with memory and drives..

  1. MacBook Pro Core i7: Effects of 8GB/4GB with Hard Disk Drive
  2. MacBook Pro Core i7: Combined 8GB/4GB with SSD and HDD

Optimizing Mac Application Performance

Optimizing specific application performance..

  1. Optimizing Developer Builds Performance

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 — Benefits and Applications
  2. Mercury Accelsior 'E2' eSATA 6G Speed with HDD / SSD

Solid State Drives, Various

SSDs and thumb drives..

  1. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Mini USB-C SSD
  2. OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual Mini USB-C
  3. 2TB Samsung T5 USB-C SSD
  4. Micron P400e 400GB Enterprise-Grade SSD

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. Overview of Solid State Drives (SSD)
  2. How to Make Your Mac Feel Lightning-fast
  3. Installing a solid state drive (SSD)
  4. Reconditioning a solid state drive (SSD)
  5. Crucial 128GB solid state drive (SSD)
  6. Intel X25-M G2 160GB solid state drive (SSD)
  7. OWC Mercury Elite On-The-Go External SSD
  8. Intel X25-E SSD
  9. Intel X25-M SSD on MacBook Pro
  10. Intel X25-M SSD in Mac Pro RAID

Special Report: Virtual Memory on Apple MacBook Pro

Virtual memory performance on the Apple MacBook Pro 2010/2009 with solid state drives and hard drives..

  1. MacBook Pro Virtual Memory Considerations
  2. Terms Used in Virtual Memory Test Graphs

Apple Mac Mini (Late 2012)

Apple’s first USB3 MacMini..

  1. 2012 Mac Mini
  2. 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. iMac Fusion Drive Performance (Single Volume)
  2. iMac Fusion Drive Performance (Separate SSD / HDD)
  3. Photoshop CS6 Performance — diglloydHuge

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

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

  1. 2012 MacBook Pro 15-inch

Apple MacBook Pro Quad-Core (February 2011)

A review of Apple’s first quad-core laptop..

  1. How and Why I Configured my MacBook Pro

MacBook Pro eSATA Cards

A review of eSATA cards for the MacBook Pro..

  1. MacBook Pro eSATA with Hitachi 7K2000 2TB Hard Drive

OWC Portable Dual-Drive RAID-0 or RAID-1 Mini Enclosures

Dual-drive externals for travel or compact backup..

  1. OWC Dual-drive Enclosures Overview
  2. OWC Dual-drive Features
  3. OWC Dual-drive Power Supply Options
  4. OWC Dual-drive Ergonomics
  5. Performance on Mac Pro with eSATA
  6. Performance on Mac Pro with Firewire 800
  7. Performance on MacBook Pro with eSATA
  8. Performance on MacBook Pro with Firewire 800
  9. OWC Dual-drive Conclusions

Drives and Expansion and Various

Reviews of various hardware and software..

  1. NewerTech MAXPower eSATA 6G 2-Port PCIe Card for Mac Pro
  2. Newer Technology Guardian Maximum 2TB RAID-1 Mirror for Plug and Play Reliability
  3. OWC Mercury Elite Pro (2011 model)
  4. OWC Mercury Elite Pro (2012 w/USB3 model)
  5. OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Mini (2010 model)
  6. FirmTek U3 USB3 Swappable 2.5-inch Drive Enclosure
  7. OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini (2011 model)
  8. OWC Mercury Elite Al-PRO QX2
  9. Data Robotics Drobo
  10. NewerTech Voyager Q Drive Dock
  11. OWC Drive Dock USB-C
  12. OWC On-The-Go 2.5-inch enclosure
  13. 2009 Apple MacBook Pro unibody 17
  14. Pimp My MacBook Pro
  15. 2008 Apple MacBook Pro unibody
  16. 2009 Apple MacMini
  17. Sonnet Tempo SATA Pro ExpressCard/34

Mac Pro Early 2009 (Nehalem)

Configuring and optimizing..

  1. Introduction to Mac Pro Nehalem
  2. Mac Pro Nehalem Recommendations

Desktop Hard Drives

Performance and use..

  1. Testing Desktop Hard Drives (Introduction)
  2. HGST Deskstar 6TB NAS Hard Drive
  3. Hitachi 4TB Deskstar 7K4000 Hard Drive
  4. Toshiba 3TB Hard Drive (HDKPC08/DT01ACAxx)
  5. Toshiba 4TB Enterprise Hard Drive (MG03ACA400)
  6. Toshiba 4TB MG03ACA400 vs 3TB DT01ACA300: Is Cheaper Faster?
  7. Hitachi 4TB Deskstar 5K4000 'Coolspin' Hard Drive
  8. Hitachi 3TB Deskstar 7K3000
  9. Western Digital RE4 2TB Enterprise Grade 'RAID Edition' HDD
  10. Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB hard drive
  11. Hitachi 2TB Deskstar 7K2000 / Ultrastar A7K2000
  12. Western Digital RE4-GP 2TB
  13. Low-power 2TB consumer hard drives
  14. Hitachi 1TB Deskstar E7K1000 Saturn.E
  15. Hitachi 1TB Deskstar 7K1000
  16. Maxtor 500GB Maxline Pro 7H500F0
  17. Seagate 1TB Barracuda ES_2
  18. Seagate 1.5TB Barracuda 7200.11
  19. Western Digital 1TB RE3

HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8

Outstanding high-capacity enterprise hard drive..

  1. HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive
  2. Using 4 or 5 8TB Hard Drives: Singly or RAID and How?
  3. Using High Capacity Drives Singly (non-RAID)
  4. Using High Capacity Drives in a RAID-0 Stripe Volume
  5. Using High Capacity Drives as Single Large RAID-4 / RAID-5 Volume
  6. Using High Capacity Drives as RAID-4 / RAID-5, Multiple Volumes
  7. HGST Ultrastar He8: Sample Variation
  8. HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8 vs HGST 6TB Deskstar NAS, 6TB Capacity Utilization
  9. HGST Ultrastar He8 Performance: Speed vs Capacity Utilization
  10. HGST Ultrastar He8 Performance: Transfer Size
  11. HGST Ultrastar He8 Performance: RAID-0 Striping
  12. HGST Ultrastar He8 Performance: RAID-0 vs RAID-4 / RAID-5 Compared 3/4/5/6/7/8 Drives
  13. HGST Ultrastar He8 Performance: RAID 1+0

Laptop Hard Drives

Technical performance data..

  1. Testing Laptop Hard Drives (Introduction)
  2. Seagate 500GB Momentus XT Hybrid Hard Drive
  3. Seagate Momentus 7200.4 500GB
  4. Fujitsu 320GB
  5. Intel 80GB X25-M SSD
  6. Hitachi 500GB Travelstar 5K500.B
  7. Hitachi 320GB Travelstar 7K320
  8. Seagate 160GB Momentus 7200.2
  9. Seagate 320GB Momentus 7200.3
  10. Western Digital 320GB Scorpio Black
  11. Western Digital 500GB Scorpio Blue

ioSafe N2 Fireproof and Waterproof NAS

Network attached storage with fire and flood protection..

  1. Drive-Swap Experience Report
  2. Backup Speed Cloning 245GB to a Disk Image

Older storage interfaces

Modern Macs use USB3 and Thunderbolt..

  1. Introduction to Storage Performance
  2. Why you should avoid Port Multiplication
  3. SATA, Firewire, and USB
  4. eSATA compared to Firewire 800

Fusion How To

Using Apple’s Fusion drive technology..

  1. Apple’s Fusion Drive Technology
  2. Controlled Fusion: Partitioning for Targeted Performance

Fusion Technical Nerd Stuff

More technical details about using Apple Fusion..

  1. Does Fusion Actually Migrate Files?
  2. Setting up a Fusion Volume
  3. Fusion Volume Speed (OWC PCIe SSD + HDD)

Blog posts

2023

2023-05-16 Reader Question: APFS or HFS for Hard Drive Backup?

2023-04-05 TESTED: WD Purple Pro 22TB Hard Drive (vs Seagate Iron Wolf Pro 20TB)

2023-01-22 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 3.0 fc9

2022

2022-09-18 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 3.0 fc3 — Public Release of IntegrityChecker Java version 3.0

2022-09-02 Too-Small Internal SSD? Fast External SSDs are a Great Way to Add Space

2022-08-29 Hard Drives: When a More Expensive Drive Costs a Lot Less

2022-08-21 TESTED: Seagate Iron Wolf Pro 20TB hard drive

2022-03-15 18TB Hard Drive only $299, Mad March Savings at OWC

2022-01-03 IntegrityChecker Java (icj): How to Eliminate the WARN_IO_STALL Messages

2021

2021-10-08 IntegrityChecker Java: Simultaneous Data Verification on any Number of Hard Drives or SSDs

2021-03-06 diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java: Optimizing Performance on Hard Drives (macOS)

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

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

2020-10-01 OWC Introduces OWC Mercury Pro LTO Tape Archiving Solution

2020-09-05 OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8 REVIEWED: all-in-one 8-Bay Thunderbolt 3 Enclosure for Hard Drives and SSD + PCIe Slot + DisplayPort 1.4 + USB Hub and SD and CFExpress Slots

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

2020-05-11 OWC ThunderBay FLEX 8: Eight Bays for Hard Drives, U.2 NVMe SSDs, Hard Drives or SATA SSDs

2020-05-11 OWC ThunderBay 8: Installing Hard Drives and SSDs, Plus Info and Specifications

2020-01-02 MAJOR Performance Improvements to diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java version 1.1b10

2019

2019-12-28 Detecting Data Corruption Caused by Bit Rot or Bad Drives or Software Bugs with diglloydTools IntegrityChecker

2019-08-30 Apple Support Cost My Client Dearly

2019-02-16 When a Hard Drive Fails: Rebuilding a RAID-5 in SoftRAID

2019-02-07 Banishing the Drone of Spinning Hard Drives: and Fans: Moving to 8TB OWC Thunderblade SSD

2019-02-04 Tested: OWC Drive Dock USB-C

2019-01-26 OWC Thunderbay 6 vs OWC Thunderbay 4: what if 5 Drives Are Used for RAID-0 instead of just four?

2019-01-24 TESTED: OWC Thunderbay 6, RAID-0 and RAID-5 Performance

2019-01-24 OWC Thunderbay 6 vs OWC Thunderbay 4: What If 5 Drives Are Used for RAID-5?

2019-01-19 Testing Six Samples of Toshiba 14TB MG07ACA Enterprise Class Hard Drive

2019-01-06 OWC Mercury Elite Pro mini Family of Storage Solutions Delivers USB-C Performance in a Portable Package

2018

2018-09-03 Video Presentation: Configuring the 2018 MacBook Pro as as Desktop Replacement

2018-09-03 Checking drives before putting into “production”

2018-06-22 OWC Hard Drive and SSD Savings

2018-05-26 OWC May Hard Drive and SSD Savings

2018-01-12 Shipping Soon: OWC Thunderbay 4 with Thunderbolt 3, Up to 48TB Capacity

2017

2017-12-01 Reader Question: Testing More than One New Drive with DiskTester

2017-11-25 Testing Seagate 12TB Enterprise Capacity 3.5-inch (Helium) Hard Drives

2017-08-23 SoftRAID Saves the Day

2017-08-21 Checking drives before putting into “production”

2017-08-09 Reader Question: SSD vs Fusion Drive in iMac 5K

2017-06-16 SmartAlec for Drive Health Monitoring:

2017-05-26 Hard Drive Deals: Why Buy 5TB if only 2/3/4TB is Needed?

2017-05-24 Reader Question: Testing More than One New Drive with DiskTester

2017-05-18 Deals on Hard Drives

2017-05-03 SmartAlec for Drive Health Monitoring

2017-04-27 Cost-Effective High Capacity Hard Drives: 8TB Now Highly Attractive

2017-01-25 Isolating/Blocking Hard Drive Vibration, Especially on a Hardwood Desk or Floor

2017-01-19 Checking drives before putting into “production”

2016

2016-12-29 Even ”Enterprise Grade” Drives Fail

2016-09-16 OWC Drive Dock Now Available in USB 3.1 Gen 1 for about $75

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

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

2016-04-17 8TB HGST Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive in 2009 Mac Pro Internal Bay (DiskTester fill-volume)

2016-04-02 Deal: 3TB Hard Drives for $90

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

2016-01-27 Reader Question: Drive Speed of 6TB vs 8TB Hard Drives (VIDEO USERS: some neat tricks here for guaranteeing high drive speed)

2016-01-24 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.13

2016-01-12 Price Drop on 4TB Internal SSD for 2013 Mac Pro, 6TB Hard Drives, 1TB SSDs, USB3 Hub

2015

2015-12-07 Reconfiguring Storage to use 8TB Drives, Data Integrity Critical

2015-12-05 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.12

2015-12-05 TESTED: OWC Drive Dock Takes 2 Bare Drives (HDD or SSD), Thunderbolt 2 or USB3

2015-11-18 TRIPP LITE USB3 Hub: 'Bulletproof', now Using two of Them

2015-11-18 Cool New Product: OWC Drive Dock Takes 2 Bare Drives (HDD or SSD) and is Thunderbolt 2!

2015-11-17 HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8: RAID-4, RAID-0, RAID-5 Scalability

2015-11-14 Real-World Drive Speed with 8TB HGST Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive (DiskTester fill-volume)

2015-11-14 OWC Announces SoftRAID 5.1, and SoftRAID Lite

2015-11-14 HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8 vs HGST 6TB Deskstar NAS, 6TB Capacity Utilization

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

2015-11-13 Real-World Drive Speed with 8TB HGST Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive (DiskTester fill-volume)

2015-11-13 Reader Question: Drive Speed of 6TB vs 8TB Hard Drives (VIDEO USERS: some neat tricks here for guaranteeing high drive speed)

2015-11-12 How to Use 32TB or 40TB of 8TB Hard Drives?

2015-11-11 REVIEWED: HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive, Singly and in RAID

2015-11-11 OWC Deals: 4TB and 6TB Hard Drives, 32GB Memory for Mac Pro 2009-2012

2015-11-11 $150 off the Brand-New Apple iMac 5K

2015-11-10 Coming Soon for Testing: HGST 8TB Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive

2015-11-09 Reader Comment: “DiskTester is awesome software as it detects irregularities before they become relevant”

2015-10-24 Reader Question: Spin-Up Delay with Hard Drives

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

2015-06-06 Storage and RAID Deals

2015-05-27 Upgrade iMac to up to 8TB Internally!

2015-05-03 Isolating/Blocking Hard Drive Vibration, Especially on a Hardwood Desk or Floor

2015-04-07 SoftRAID 5.0.7 Delivers Performance Enhancements

2015-03-30 Hard Drives: Odds of Failure with Time, When to Upgrade/Replace

2015-03-27 Making an Old Dog of a Laptop Run Like a New One: Wow!

2015-03-26 iMac: How to Upgrade the Internal Drive

2015-03-26 Hard Drives: Staying the Course with Higher Performance and up to 8TB Capacity

2015-02-28 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.11

2015-02-28 OWC Weekend Specials

2015-02-25 Reader Question: Photoshop and Large Files — Best Way to Optimize

2015-02-22 An Example of When More CPU Cores Mean Responsive vs Sluggish

2015-02-21 OWC Weekend Specials

2015-01-22 Hard Drive Reliability

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

2015-01-07 OWC Announces 'Transwarp', Combining the Speed of SSDs with the Capacity of Hard Drives

2014

2014-12-24 TESTED: Hitachi HGST Deskstar 6TB NAS Hard Drive — Fastest Yet!

2014-12-04 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.11

2014-11-21 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.9

2014-11-17 OWC Announces ThunderBay Mini: 4-bay Enclosure for 2.5-inch Drives, Thunderbolt v2

2014-11-14 OWC Offers Thunderbay Mini, Thunderbolt v2 Enclosure for 2.5-Inch SSDs or Hard Drives (4 bays)

2014-11-12 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.8

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?

2014-10-17 Apple iMac 5K Memory Kits at OWC

2014-10-16 Hard Drives: Capacity Utilization vs Speed aka “4TB or 5TB or 6TB Hard Drives?”

2014-10-11 Wiping Free Space on Hard Drives and SSDs

2014-10-08 Big Storage: 4TB, 5TB, 6TB Hard Drives

2014-09-10 Wiping Free Space on Hard Drives and SSDs

2014-09-10 Big Storage: 4TB, 5TB, 6TB Hard Drives

2014-09-05 OWC Garage Sale

2014-09-05 FOR SALE: 6 OWC Mercury Elite Pro External Quad-Interface Enclosures (for 3.5-inch Hard Drives)

2014-09-02 OWC Thunderbay Now Up to 24TB (4 X 6TB Hard Drives)

2014-08-29 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.7b

2014-08-29 OWC Labor Day Specials

2014-07-15 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.7a

2014-07-08 RAID-0 Scalability: 60TB and 12 Hard Drives in Three OWC Thunderbay 4 Enclosures

2014-06-25 OWC Ships Thunderbay 4-Drive Solution with Thunderbolt 2

2014-06-08 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.7b1

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

2014-05-06 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.5

2014-05-02 OWC Thunderbay can use Hard Drives or SSDs and Handy for Swapping Drives of all Types

2014-03-12 Isolating/Blocking Hard Drive Vibration, Especially on a Hardwood Desk or Floor

2014-02-12 Is a 4TB Enterprise-Grade Hard Disk Drive Faster than a 3TB Consumer-Grade HDD For RAID?

2014-01-04 Validate Hard Drives Before Putting into Use Especially for RAID

2013

2013-12-23 OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual: Thunderbolt vs USB for Dual-Drive RAID

2013-12-19 Thunderbolt or USB3 for Hard Drives?

2013-12-18 2013 Mac Pro Buying advice

2013-10-29 Disabling Hourly Wake From Sleep by Airport Utility

2013-10-02 Prices Drop a Little: Toshiba 3TB Hard Drives + OWC Mercury Accelsior PCie SSD

2013-09-30 Reader Comment: Hard Drive Warranty

2013-09-24 New iMac with PCIe Flash Storage

2013-09-17 OWC DataDoubler Kit for Mac Mini: 2 X 1.5 TB Internally With 9.5mm Drives

2013-07-13 Defrag or Upgrade to Faster/Larger? (Lightroom, Aperture, etc)

2013-07-03 Promise Pegasus J4 Thunderbolt: Performance with Hard Drives

2013-07-02 2013 Apple Mac Pro: Pure Elegance, Visualized

2013-07-01 Promise Pegasus J4: Coming for Testing with SSD and HDD

2013-06-13 Pegasus J4: One Part of the Switchover Solution for the new Mac Pro?

2013-06-13 2013 Apple Mac Pro: Connecting eSATA via Thunderbolt

2013-06-12 2013 Apple Mac Pro: Thoughts on a Switchover from Existing Tower

2013-06-10 2013 Apple Mac Pro: Reader Comments

2013-06-10 2013 Apple Mac Pro: Faster or Slower, Elegant but Klunky, Promise vs Reality, Video Oriented

2013-06-04 New Apple Mac Pro? No PCI and no Internal Expandability? Will it be a Mac Mini Super Sized?

2013-05-24 FirmTek U3 Trayless Enclosure for 2.5-Inch SSD or Hard Drive

2013-05-08 Adobe Creative Cloud: Reader Comments

2013-04-05 One Backup (only) is a Disaster Waiting to Happen

2013-02-04 FOR SALE: Atto R380 RAID Card + CiDesign iStorage Pro + 8 X 2TB Hard Drives

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)

2012

2012-12-03 New Apple 27" iMac — Buying Advice

2012-11-09 MacWorld: MacMini and Fusion

2012-11-08 Update on Apple 'Fusion': Writes are Fast, No Smart Migration

2012-11-06 MacMini: 16GB vs 8GB, Hard Drive vs SSD

2012-11-03 MacMini — Hard Drive vs SSD

2012-11-03 MacMini — Dual Internal Separate Drives are Superior to the 'Fusion' Option

2012-11-02 MacMini and Fusion Drive Setup

2012-10-31 Performance of 'Fusion' Drive (OWC Accelsior 480GB PCIe SSD + 2TB HDD)

2012-10-25 Apple’s Fusion Drive

2012-10-23 Analysis of the Oct 2012 iMac

2012-10-23 Analysis of the Oct 2012 MacMini

2012-10-08 Media integrity and performance verification— one of many reasons to use DiskTester

2012-04-15 OWC’s new Mercury Accelsior PCIe SSD for Blistering-fast Drive Performance

2012-04-12 Which is the Fastest 2TB (or 1TB or 3TB) Hard Drive?

2012-04-11 4TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K4000 Hard Drive in 3-way RAID-0 Stripe

2012-04-10 Tested: 4TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K4000 Hard Drive

2012-04-04 4TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K4000 Hard Drive for 16TB Inside a Mac Pro

2012-03-31 4TB Hitachi Deskstar 7K4000 Hard Drive

2012-02-25 OWC SSD Updater and MacBook Pro DataDoubler

2012-02-18 ZFS for Mac OS X — ZEVO

2012-02-17 Tested: 4TB Hitachi Deskstar 5K4000 'Coolspin' Hard Drive

2012-02-16 Hitachi Coolspin 4TB Hard Drive

2012-02-11 Seagate Barracuda XT SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache Hard Drive w/ 5 Year Warranty

2012-01-19 OWC PCIe SSD Card Coming Soon

2011

2011-12-07 Hard Disk Drive Price Trends

2011-11-12 OWC Comments on the Hard Drive Availability Situation

2011-11-01 Memory and Hard Drive Prices: Win Some, Lose Some

2011-10-24 Hard Drive Prices Bump Up Due to Flooding in Asia

2011-08-13 My Killer-fast Mac Pro System Based on Solid State Drives (SSD)

2011-08-11 FOR SALE: Atto R380 RAID Card + CiDesign iStorage Pro + 8 X 2TB Hard Drives

2011-07-23 OWC Mercury Elite Pro Mini Bus-Powered Portable External Drive (Hard Drive or SSD)

2011-06-07 The All-SSD Mac Pro

2011-05-17 Higher Capacity Hard Drives Stay Faster

2011-05-07 Save Big Photoshop Files 20X Faster!

2011-05-07 How fast are Four Hitachi 7K3000 3TB Hard Drives in a RAID-0 Stripe?

2011-05-04 MPG Pro Workstation: 4-cores @ 2.93GHz, 24GB Memory as 3 X 8GB, 4 X 3TB Hard Drives, 240GB 6G SSD, Built and Pre-Tested, $4920

2011-04-09 Minimizing Down-time With A Fault-Tolerant MPG Pro Workstation

2011-04-06 How to Install More Than One Power Hungry Video Card in a Mac Pro

2011-02-10 OWC Mount Pro for Installing 2.5" Hard Drive or SSD Into Mac Pro Drive Bays

2011-01-15 Hard Drive Noise

2011-01-14 Inexpensive Apple Mac Pro as a File Server for Home or Small Business

2011-01-05 SPECIAL DEAL on a 2009 Mac Pro 2.93GHz as an MPG Pro Workstation

2010

2010-12-29 Two Compact and Portable Choices for Mirrored or Striped External Storage

2010-12-11 NewerTech Guardian Maximus 3TB RAID-1 Mirror for Fault Tolerance

2010-12-01 Higher Capacity Hard Drives Are Faster

2010-11-30 Reviewed: Seagate 500GB Momentus XT Hybrid Laptop Hard Drive

2010-08-09 How to Mitigate 2010 Mac Pro 4/6-core Memory Limits

2010-07-31 New! MPG Pro One™ (pro-grade iMac)

2010-07-30 Getting the Right Mac Pro for Your Needs, Pre-configured, Pre-Tested and Ready to Use

2010-07-28 Pricing and Valuing the iMac Against the Mac Pro

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

2010-07-16 Speed of internal SATA Ports with Mac OS X

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

2010-07-08 NewerTech StoraDrive™ for Bare Hard Drive Storage

2010-06-22 Dual internal Drives in a MacBook Pro with “OWC Data Doubler” Bracket

2010-05-29 Speed and reliability in your MacBook Pro When Traveling — Solid State Drives (SSD)

2010-05-25 Why you need more space than you need!

2010-05-22 Fast and ample storage in a MacBook Pro with 480GB SSD and 1TB HDD

2010-05-14 MacBook Pro SSD single drive and RAID stripe vs hard drive

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

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