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Drive Genius

Is APFS fully supported yet?

Does APFS currently support hard disks, Fusion Drives, and other forms of storage beyond SSDs? The devil is in the detail.

February 17, 2018 Macs, Technology

Building a cheap external SSD: USB 3 or Thunderbolt? 3 – Performance

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Does the £120 Thunderbolt case outperform the £15 USB 3 one? And if you had both, which would you choose to use?

July 22, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Checking your drives with DriveDx

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How much is the data stored on your Mac’s drives worth? DriveDx is a utility which could save you from that loss.

March 3, 2016 Macs, Technology

How it took 2 days to upgrade my RAID, thanks to a bug in Disk Utility, and tired old HFS+

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Disk Utility has a bug which can waste a lot of time trying to re-partition drives, and HFS+ creaks horribly.

February 13, 2016 Macs, Technology

Third party support for CoreStorage: disk repair and other utilities

Do third-party disk tools work with Fusion Drives, or are you stuck with just Disk Utility?

December 29, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Greyed out external drive

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?

November 24, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Drive failed to wake from sleep

When my external drive woke from sleep. it needed repair, but Disk Utility cannot help. What should I do?

September 10, 2015 Macs, Technology

Cause of Death – how disks become corrupted and crash

Disk errors and crashes may be terminal, rescuable, or fully repairable. Understanding their nature enables you to choose how to tackle them.

May 8, 2015 Macs, Technology

My Mac don’t work – troubleshooting tools and techniques

Like all sophisticated systems, Macs do sometimes go wrong. Indeed in some hands they always seem to be […]

February 10, 2015 Macs, Technology
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