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Last Week on My Mac: Drag racing SSDs

A lot safer than racing through the English countryside in the dead of night, and perfectly legal. So why can’t we get a clear answer to how well an SSD performs?

December 13, 2020 Macs, Technology

Inside the file system: 4 Summary and references

Disk structure diagrammed for comparison, from the partition table, to HFS+ and APFS volumes, with further references.

October 10, 2020 Macs, Technology

Inside the file system: 3 APFS containers and volumes

What you need to know about the APFS file system, its containers and volumes, so you can understand errors and how to repair them.

October 8, 2020 Macs, Technology

Inside the file system: 2 HFS+ volumes

What you need to know about the HFS+ file system, so you can understand error reports and how to repair it using Disk Utility and other tools.

October 7, 2020 Macs, Technology

Inside the file system: 1 Disks and partitions

What you need to know about disk formatting using the GUID Partition Table (GPT) to understand its problems and how to repair it.

October 6, 2020 Macs, Technology

Big Sur may yet live up to its name

Here are several good reasons that Big Sur will need more storage space than previous versions of macOS.

July 14, 2020 Macs, Technology

cintch checks file integrity from the command line

This can now be incorporated into your own scripts, to check the integrity of important files automatically.

May 27, 2020 Macs, Technology

File Integrity 12 : Error correction for large files

Can you use error-correcting code to repair very large files, for example of around 20 GB or more?

May 5, 2020 Macs, Technology

File Integrity 11 : Which RAID levels enable file recovery?

Selecting a RAID level to preserve file integrity can be confusing. Here’s a guide, complete with the ifs and buts.

May 2, 2020 Macs, Technology

File Integrity 10 : Effects of length of corruption on images and ECC recovery

What difference does it make when a file has a block of 512 bytes corrupted instead of just a single byte? Results from image formats and recovery using ECC.

April 30, 2020 Macs, Technology

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