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2023-04-08 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 3.0 fc23
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2023-03-02 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 3.0 fc17
2023-01-22 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 3.0 fc9
2022-09-18 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 3.0 fc3 — Public Release of IntegrityChecker Java version 3.0
2022-09-09 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 3.0 FC1 — Looking For Testers
2022-09-07 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 2.0.5fc3 — Last Release Prior to version 3.0
2022-06-18 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: IntegrityChecker, Verify (SHA512 Hashing, Multithreaded)
2022-05-07 Validating Backup Volumes is Essential, Right-After and Later Too!
2022-05-03 Developer Out There Who Knows NSFileManager + Objective C, Craft a Command Line Executable?
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2022-09-18 Don’t let your Photos and Videos Silently Go Corrupt — IntegrityChecker Java version 3.0
2022-04-14 IntegrityChecker Java for Windows Now Available for Download
2021-11-02 BMJ: Researcher blows the whistle on Covid-19 data integrity issues in Pfizer’s vaccine trial
2020-07-31 diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java v2.0 fc4 Available for Download
2020-01-02 MAJOR Performance Improvements to diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java version 1.1b10
2019-12-18 Validating Backups, Validating File Transfers, Data Integrity Over Time
2019-01-12 Reader Comment: Hard Drive Bad Sectors, Enterprise vs Consumer Drives
2019-01-11 Reader Comment: Hard Drive Error Rates
2018-12-25 Multi-Platform Data Integrity Over Time, Originals and Backups, Perils from Failures, Hackers, etc
2018-09-30 Data Integrity Over Time, and with OS Changes
2016-08-13 diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java Version: Finds Duplicates, Saved me 100GB!
Fastest Mac Yet?..
World’s fastest laptop, beats nearly all desktops..
Trouncing Intel-based laptops and desktops alike..
Rocking fast iMac with 8 cores and up to 128GB..
Rocking fast iMac with 8 cores and up to 128GB..
True desktop-class performance..
Workhorse desktop tower..
Desktop Class Performance, memory, SSD..
Vastly improved performance over 2017 model, 6 CPU Cores..
Improved performance over 2016 model..
Touchbar, wide gamut, unrivalled SSD..
An iPad-sized laptop, refreshed..
Evolving the platform with a hyper fast SSD..
How to utilize cloning for backup and other chores..
How to erase and partition drives..
Larger drives are faster..
SSDs or hard drives for fast single-drive or RAID volumes in a portable enclosure..
Reviews of Thunderbolt products..
Big Fast Hard Drives, 2021 and Later.
High-end computing moves to the iMac form factor..
Even better than the 2015 model..
5K Display, blazingly fast SSD.
World’s first 5K Display.
Suggestions for setting up your Mac for performance and data safety..
Networking as fast as an SSD!.
Special Report: Upgrade Now or Wait?.
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?.
Choosing among 4/6/8/12 cores, and is 2010 Mac Pro faster or better than 2009 model?.
SSDs and thumb drives..
Various SATA and USB SSDs..
Fast and durable, enterprise-grade solid state drives..
Many brands of solid state drives put on a good show when new, but some degrade with use..
Choosing and using solid state drives..
Apple’s fastest Mac as of Jan 2013?.
An iPad-sized laptop..
A review of Apple’s first quad-core laptop..
A review of eSATA cards for the MacBook Pro..
Reviews of various hardware and software..
Performance and use..
Technical performance data..
Using Apple’s Fusion drive technology..
2023-04-08 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 3.0 fc23
2023-03-30 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 3.0 fc20
2023-03-02 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 3.0 fc17
2023-01-22 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 3.0 fc9
2022-09-18 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 3.0 fc3 — Public Release of IntegrityChecker Java version 3.0
2022-09-09 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 3.0 FC1 — Looking For Testers
2022-09-07 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 2.0.5fc3 — Last Release Prior to version 3.0
2022-06-18 TESTED: Apple Mac Studio M1 Ultra: IntegrityChecker, Verify (SHA512 Hashing, Multithreaded)
2022-05-07 Validating Backup Volumes is Essential, Right-After and Later Too!
2022-05-03 Developer Out There Who Knows NSFileManager + Objective C, Craft a Command Line Executable?
2022-04-29 IntegrityChecker Java Release 2.0.3b25
2022-04-23 Reader Question: “Will DiglloydTools work with macOS Monterey?”
2022-04-14 IntegrityChecker Java for Windows Now Available for Download
2022-04-13 IntegrityChecker Java for Windows: How To Set the Path Variable
2022-04-13 IntegrityChecker Java for Windows: How To Install Java
2022-04-12 IntegrityChecker Java for Windows: Tested And Working
2022-01-03 IntegrityChecker Java (icj): Suppressing Innocuous HASHES_MATCH_DATE_CHANGED Warnings
2022-01-03 IntegrityChecker Java (icj): How to Eliminate the WARN_IO_STALL Messages
2022-01-03 IntegrityChecker Java (icj) Version 2.02 Now Available
2021-12-22 Apple M1 Macs: Not a Mature Solution for General Usage eg Java Virtual Machine
2021-12-16 Why Use IntegrityChecker Java for Data Integrity?
2021-12-16 Java for Apple M1 Macs
2021-12-06 IntegrityChecker Java: How Fast Can Hashing Go on the 13GB/sec OWC Accelsior 8M2 PCIe SSD?
2021-10-22 Fastest SSD Yet in the MacBook Pro M1 Max, but Will Apps Run Things Faster Because of It?
2021-10-08 IntegrityChecker Java: Simultaneous Data Verification on any Number of Hard Drives or SSDs
2021-10-05 Years Later, macOS Big Sur leaves Major Disk I/O Performance Bug Unfixed
2021-10-04 Checking for Data Corruption after macOS Hoses Your System
2021-03-09 Diglloyd Tools IntegrityChecker Java 2.0.0
2021-03-06 diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java: Optimizing Performance on Hard Drives (macOS)
2021-03-01 diglloydTools and IntegrityChecker Java Working Fine on macOS Big Sur
2020-07-31 diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java v2.0 fc4 Available for Download
2020-07-15 diglloydTools IntegrityChecker: Major Release Coming Soon
2020-07-06 Data Loss Prevented: IntegrityChecker Saves my Bacon by Detecting Corrupted Files after a Clone
2020-01-21 diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java version 1.3b11 Update: Better Handling of Permissions Issues
2020-01-20 diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java version 1.3b7 Update (incorporates online help)
2020-01-19 Insanely Fast Data Integrity Checking with diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java
2020-01-05 diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java version 1.2b2 Incorporates SHA-512 for Major Performance Boost
2020-01-02 MAJOR Performance Improvements to diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java version 1.1b10
2019-10-20 Reader Question: diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Purchase Options
2019-09-04 Features Coming to IntegrityChecker java
2019-05-27 Detecting Corruption / Validating Data Integrity Over Time and Across Drives and Backup/Restore
2019-02-22 Performance Tip for diglloydTools IntegrityChecker, java version
2019-01-19 Testing Six Samples of Toshiba 14TB MG07ACA Enterprise Class Hard Drive
2018-12-25 Data Integrity Over Time, and with OS Changes
2018-09-29 Data Integrity Over Time, and with OS Changes
2018-09-03 Checking drives before putting into “production”
2017-12-30 diglloydTools v 2.2.15 Now Includes Java IntegrityChecker with up to 50% Speed Improvement
2017-12-24 diglloydTools Updated to v 2.2.15, IntegrityChecker Sees up to 38% Speed Improvement
2017-12-23 Why More CPU Cores Often Run no Faster, and Sometimes Slower than Fewer CPU Cores
2017-12-01 Reader Question: Testing More than One New Drive with DiskTester
2017-08-23 SoftRAID Saves the Day
2017-08-21 Checking drives before putting into “production”
2017-07-19 2017 MacBook Pro vs My 2015 MacBook Pro
2017-07-18 2017 MacBook Pro: IntegrityChecker Verify
2017-05-24 Reader Question: Testing More than One New Drive with DiskTester
2017-01-19 Checking drives before putting into “production”
2016-12-29 Even ”Enterprise Grade” Drives Fail
2016-12-01 Wiping Personal Data Off a Mac that is Being Returned or Sold
2016-11-30 Reader Comment: DiskTester
2016-10-08 diglloydTools: Current version Works with macOS Sierra (no update needed)
2016-08-13 diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java Version: Finds Duplicates, Saved me 100GB!
2016-08-13 diglloydTools IntegrityChecker 'icj' beta 6 now posted
2016-08-09 diglloydTools IntegrityChecker 'icj' beta 5 now posted
2016-08-04 NEW! Cross Platform Java-Based diglloydTools IntegrityChecker
2016-07-21 My Kids Don’t Like the Idea Much
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'
2016-05-18 Apple 2016 MacBook: Real-World Photoshop Performance + IntegrityChecker Speed
2016-05-18 Apple 2016 MacBook: Real-World Photoshop Performance + IntegrityChecker Speed
2016-04-17 8TB HGST Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive in 2009 Mac Pro Internal Bay (DiskTester fill-volume)
2016-04-04 Selling that Computer? Wipe Out Personal Files First
2016-03-27 What a Bad Hard Drive Fails Like when Running diglloydTools 'fill-volume'
2016-01-24 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.13
2015-12-07 Reconfiguring Storage to use 8TB Drives, Data Integrity Critical
2015-12-05 iMac 5K (Late 2015) vs Mac Pro: XCode Build diglloydTools
2015-12-05 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.12
2015-11-20 Late 2015 iMac 5K: IntegrityChecker 'verify' (SHA1 hash)
2015-11-14 Real-World Drive Speed with 8TB HGST Ultrastar He8 Hard Drive (DiskTester fill-volume)
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)
2015-10-07 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
2015-06-08 2015 MacBook Pro SSD Speed = Awesome in the Real World Too
2015-05-03 Detecting Corruption / Validating Data Integrity Over Time and Across Drives and Backup/Restore
2015-02-28 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.11
2015-01-17 What’s the Most Important Aspect of Your Mac?
2015-01-17 How to Automate DiskUtility Verification of Mounted Volumes
2015-01-12 Selling that Computer? Wipe Out Personal Files First
2015-01-12 Reader Feedback: “WORTH it. My drive (SSD) is back and so is my productivity”
2015-01-09 Testing Multiple Drives for Consistency for a RAID or Similar
2015-01-09 Detecting Corruption / Validating Data Integrity Over Time and Across Drives and Backup/Restore
2014-12-12 TESTED: OWC Aura SSD for 2013 Mac Pro (first + only internal 2TB SSD for Mac Pro)
2014-12-12 OWC Aura SSD for 2013 Mac Pro
2014-12-06 OWC Mercury Electra 6G 960GB SSD: RAID-0 Striping vs RAID-5 vs RAID-4 vs RAID-10
2014-12-04 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.11
2014-11-25 RAID-0 vs RAID-4 or RAID-5: Does the CPU Usage Matter?
2014-11-23 RAID-0 vs RAID-4 or RAID-5: Does the CPU Usage Matter?
2014-11-22 RAID: Performance vs Transfer Size
2014-11-22 RAID-5 vs RAID-4: Which is Faster?
2014-11-21 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.9
2014-11-21 What an Impaired SSD Looks Like
2014-11-12 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.8
2014-11-11 Configuring and Backing Up High Capacity Multi-Drive Storage
2014-11-07 Selling that Computer? Wipe Out Personal Files First
2014-11-02 diglloydTools DiskTester, IntegrityChecker, MemoryTester — Works Fine on OS X Yosemite
2014-10-31 Fastest iMac 5K vs the Fastest Mac Pro: Integrity Checker (SHA1 Hash)
2014-10-11 Wiping Free Space on Hard Drives and SSDs
2014-09-10 Wiping Free Space on Hard Drives and SSDs
2014-08-29 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.7b
2014-07-30 Just Did a Big Drive Reconfig: How Did I Verify Data Integrity?
2014-07-15 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.7a
2014-06-23 Through June 30: Take 20% off Consulting with purchase of diglloydTools
2014-06-21 Reader Question: “A way to make DiskTester iterate test for 50 times or more?”
2014-06-21 Reader Feedback: “WORTH it. My drive (SSD) is back and so is my productivity”
2014-06-11 Detecting Corruption / Validating Data Integrity Over Time and Across Drives and Backup/Restore
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
2014-05-03 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.4
2014-04-01 diglloydTools Updated to version 2.2.3
2013-10-26 Minor Update for diglloydTools for OS X Mavericks
2013-10-07 OS X Mavericks and diglloydTools
2013-10-07 Are Your Backup Drives Still Functional? Are Your Files Subtly Damaged?
2013-09-07 OS X Mavericks and diglloydTools
2013-07-12 How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups
2013-06-29 How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups
2013-06-29 How to Automate DiskUtility Verification of Mounted Volumes
2013-06-11 Detecting Corruption / Validating Data Integrity Over Time and Across Drives and Backup/Restore
2013-04-07 Example of Verifying Data Integrity
2012-12-15 What’s Most Important for Your Mac?
2012-11-18 Reader Question: DiskTester and OS X Cache
2012-10-08 Media integrity and performance verification— one of many reasons to use DiskTester
2012-02-16 Hitachi Coolspin 4TB Hard Drive
2012-02-10 diglloydTools beta Now Available for Download
2012-02-05 Working on diglloydTools Update
2011-11-16 Media integrity and performance verification— one of many reasons to use DiskTester
2011-10-10 Yes, diglloydTools Works on Mac OS X Lion (and Mountain Lion)
2011-07-24 Mac OS X Lion and diglloydTools
2011-03-28 How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups
2010-10-30 Reader Feedback on Mac Pro Setup and more
2010-08-30 2010 Mac Pro Remains Bus-limited With More than Two Fast Solid State Drives
2010-08-07 New Sites for diglloydTools, MPG Pro Workstation, MPG Pro Laptop, MPG Pro One
2010-05-29 Restoring solid state drive performance with DiskTester ‘recondition’
2010-05-28 Media integrity and performance verification— one of many reasons to use DiskTester