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Which hard drive? 160,000 years experience analysed

Hard drives are still best value for higher capacity storage. Here are some tips for purchasing them, based on vast experience.

February 4, 2017 Macs, Technology

Which disks can you install in an external RAID drive such as a Promise Pegasus?

Replacing a failed drive, or upgrading the whole array? Your choice may be wider than you think.

November 4, 2016 Macs, Technology

Drive safely: testing hard drives the hard way

Few users can report the results of testing over 61,000 hard drives for three months. Backblaze just has.

May 20, 2016 Macs, Technology

Tucking it away safely: archival media

How can you ensure that your descendants will have access to your photos, movies, and work many years in the future?

April 28, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Keeping cool: how to stop your Mac from overheating

Summer is allegedly coming: the season when your Mac could see its harshest use. Does yours get too hot?

April 26, 2016 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 to check and repair your drives in El Capitan

El Capitan has made the checking and repair of storage more complex. Here is a clear explanation of what to do.

February 20, 2016 Macs, Technology

How can you tell whether it is a hard drive or an SSD?

Older external hard drives were large, noisy, and required power. New ones are just like SSDs. So how can you tell them apart?

February 16, 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

Keeping your Promise: upgrading a Promise Pegasus R4 RAID

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How easy is it to increase the Promise Pegasus R4’s drive capacity without losing data?

February 11, 2016 Macs, Technology

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