As Mac hard disks grew larger, fragmentation of file data, file system metadata and free space slowed the disk down. Here’s how we used to solve that.
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Does APFS currently support hard disks, Fusion Drives, and other forms of storage beyond SSDs? The devil is in the detail.
Does the £120 Thunderbolt case outperform the £15 USB 3 one? And if you had both, which would you choose to use?
How much is the data stored on your Mac’s drives worth? DriveDx is a utility which could save you from that loss.
Disk Utility has a bug which can waste a lot of time trying to re-partition drives, and HFS+ creaks horribly.
Do third-party disk tools work with Fusion Drives, or are you stuck with just Disk Utility?
The icon for my 2 TB external drive is greyed out in Disk Utility, and I can do nothing with it. How can I restore its normal function?
When my external drive woke from sleep. it needed repair, but Disk Utility cannot help. What should I do?
Disk errors and crashes may be terminal, rescuable, or fully repairable. Understanding their nature enables you to choose how to tackle them.
Like all sophisticated systems, Macs do sometimes go wrong. Indeed in some hands they always seem to be […]
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