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Name that disk: what to call your storage

Being a hybrid, naming disks and volumes can get complex in OS X. This article demystifies them.

January 28, 2016 Macs, Technology

Q&A: How to defragment in El Capitan

Should you defragment files, or free space, in El Capitan, or are they even possible now?

January 12, 2016 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Disappearing disk space

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228.7 GB of my internal disk is occupied by ‘Other’. Where has this gone, and how can I reclaim it?

January 8, 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

El Capitan and Yosemite: how CoreStorage changes hard drives and their care

If you are running Yosemite or El Capitan, OS X may have changed the way that your boot disk is managed – and how you can maintain and repair it.

December 28, 2015 Macs, Technology

Fusion Drives: the best thing to happen to El Capitan

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Why El Capitan needs an SSD or Fusion Drive, and all about their care and maintenance.

December 27, 2015 Macs, Technology

Drive failed, so what’s important?

Even the most disorganised adult has some system of discriminating what things are most important – but not computers.

November 30, 2015 Macs, Technology

Q&A: Buying a pair of hard drives

Can I install SATA-600 hard drives in my Mac Pro, which supports SATA-300?

November 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: That hard disk is no more

The old drive in my Mac Pro has a S.M.A.R.T. status of ‘failed’. Should I move it to a different drive slot?

November 17, 2015 Macs, Technology

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