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

2013-07-07 Photoshop CS6 Performance with Pegasus J4 + OWC 6G SSD RAID

2013-07-05 Promise Pegasus J4 Thunderbolt: Recommended High Performance Config *with* Built-in Backup

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

2013-07-03 Promise Pegasus J4 Thunderbolt: Performance with Four OWC 6G SSDs and Incompressible Data

2013-07-03 Promise Pegasus J4 Thunderbolt: Performance with Four OWC 6G SSDs

2013-07-02 Promise Pegasus J4: Internal View with Four 6G SSDs

2013-07-02 Promise Pegasus J4: Initializing Drives

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

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

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Understanding Storage and Hard Drives

How to erase and partition drives..

  1. Terminology: Volume vs Drive
  2. How to Initialize or Erase a New or Existing Drive
  3. How to Partition Drives Into Multiple Volumes
  4. Validating a Hard Drive or SSD or RAID (DiskTester fill-volume)
  5. OWC DriveGuide Software

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

Easy Thunderbolt Networking (10 Gigabit)

Networking as fast as an SSD!.

  1. Thunderbolt 10-Gigabit Networking: Setting Up Between Macs
  2. Thunderbolt 10-Gigabit Networking: Real World Performance
  3. Thunderbolt 10-Gigabit Networking: Migration Assistant

Optimizing Photoshop CS6 / Creative Cloud Performance

Preferred configuration for best performance..

  1. Photoshop CS6 Performance Configuration
  2. Speed Up Saving and Opening Photoshop Files by up to 20X
  3. diglloyd Benchmarks for Photoshop CC
  4. Are 12 CPU Cores Faster Than 6 with Photoshop CS6?
  5. Disable App Nap for Consistent Performance

Optimizing Photoshop CS5 Performance

The best hardware and configuration for Photoshop CS5..

  1. The Photoshop CS5 Upgrade (Introduction)
  2. Photoshop CS5 Memory Usage Preference
  3. Photoshop CS5 Maximum Memory on Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, iMac
  4. Photoshop CS5 Cache Tile Size = Sharp Stick In The Eye
  5. Photoshop CS5 64-bit and 32-bit Plugin Issues
  6. Adobe Plugins for Photoshop CS5 Performance
  7. Speed Up Saving and Opening Photoshop CS5/CS4/CS3 Files
  8. Save Big Files 20X Faster With the DisallowFlateCompressedPSD Plugin
  9. Influence of Drive Speed on CS5 Big File Save Speed
  10. Photoshop CS5 Warmup Time — Memory Allocation Hit
  11. Scripts to Warm Up Photoshop CS5
  12. Analysis of Photoshop CS5 CPU Core Usage
  13. Various Other Photoshop CS5 Issues
  14. Photoshop CS5 diglloyd Benchmarks
  15. Photoshop CS5 Optimization Conclusions

Optimizing Photoshop CS4 Performance

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

  1. Photoshop CS4 Optimization (Introduction)
  2. How to Configure Photoshop CS4 for best performance
  3. Performance in Photoshop CS4 vs CS3
  4. Test results for Photoshop CS4 on Mac Pro
  5. Test results for Photoshop CS4 on MacBook Pro
  6. Using Solid State Drives (SSD) for Photoshop CS4 Scratch
  7. Optimizing Photoshop CS4 on Apple MacBook Pro With Solid State Drives
  8. MacBook Pro Photoshop CS4 speed demon SSD
  9. Using a RAM disk as a Photoshop CS4 scratch disk
  10. Photoshop CS4 Benchmark actions
  11. Photoshop CS4 oddities
  12. Photoshop CS4 Performance Conclusions and Recommendations

Optimizing Other Photography Software

Speedups for working with images..

  1. How to Organize Photos or Files Into New Folders in the Finder
  2. How to Quickly Preview and Sort 1000 Images the OS X Finder
  3. Optimizing Adobe Lightroom
  4. Optimizing Apple Aperture
  5. Optimizing Canon Digital Photo Professional
  6. Optimizing PTGui Pro Panoramas

Optimizing Mac Performance

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

  1. Ways to Optimize Your Mac’s Performance
  2. Optimizing your Mac: Get Adequate Memory
  3. Optimizing your Mac: SSD for Fast Virtual Memory
  4. Optimizing your Mac: Fast Hard Drive or SSD
  5. Optimizing your Mac: Quit Vampire Programs
  6. Optimizing your Mac: Turn Off Unused Services
  7. How to Delete a Space-Hogging Sleep File sleepimage
  8. How to Reclaim Wasted Cache Space on Your Boot Drive
  9. Extending the 'sudo' Timeout

Optimizing Video/DVD and Other Software

How to make your software run faster on the same hardware!.

  1. Optimizing Adobe After Effects
  2. Optimizing Handbrake for Faster Video Conversion

Mac Performance 101: Cores, Processes, Memory

Monitoring tips and application CPU core scorecard..

  1. Analyzing System Performance in OS X Mavericks
  2. Monitoring How Much Memory Is Used
  3. Monitoring CPU and CPU Core Usage
  4. Monitoring System Activity on the Command Line

Optimizing Mac Application Performance

Optimizing specific application performance..

  1. Intro to Optimizing Mac Applications
  2. Optimizing Developer Builds Performance
  3. Optimizing Spotlight for Better Performance
  4. Optimizing Virtual Memory Performance
  5. How to Add a Quit Finder Option to the Finder

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. How The MacBook Pro Virtual Memory Tests Were Done
  3. Terms Used in Virtual Memory Test Graphs
  4. Virtual Memory with 32-bit Snow Leopard Kernel (MacBook Pro)
  5. Virtual Memory with 64-bit Snow Leopard Kernel (MacBook Pro)
  6. MacBook Pro Virtual Memory Recommendations

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
  5. eSATA PCI-Express card configuration

Blog posts

2013

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

2013-07-07 Photoshop CS6 Performance with Pegasus J4 + OWC 6G SSD RAID

2013-07-05 Promise Pegasus J4 Thunderbolt: Recommended High Performance Config *with* Built-in Backup

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

2013-07-03 Promise Pegasus J4 Thunderbolt: Performance with Four OWC 6G SSDs and Incompressible Data

2013-07-03 Promise Pegasus J4 Thunderbolt: Performance with Four OWC 6G SSDs

2013-07-02 Promise Pegasus J4: Internal View with Four 6G SSDs

2013-07-02 Promise Pegasus J4: Initializing 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

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