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2020-12-28 Some of my Favorite Stuff From OWC
2020-12-09 Backup Battery Power During a Power Outage, Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
2020-10-01 OWC Mercury Pro LTO Tape Archiving Solution for Videographers and Photo Studios, and Much More
2020-07-02 Putting the 16TB OWC Accelsior 4M2 PCIe SSD to Use as Main Storage
2020-05-12 Work from Home: Mac Pro deal, and what to get with it
2020-05-12 Work from Home: Apple iMac 5K, and What to Get With It
2020-05-12 Work from Home: Apple MacBook Pro, and What to Get With It
2020-01-11 Major Data Loss Today — But Luckily I Had Just Made Several Backups
2019-12-18 Validating Backups, Validating File Transfers, Data Integrity Over Time
2019-11-19 Reader Comments/Questions on the Apple 2019 MacBook Pro
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2021-01-29 Installing an 18TB Hard Drive into the OWC Mercury Elite Pro USB 3.2 Enclosure
2021-01-29 How-To: Formatting a new Hard Drive or SSD in Apple Disk Utility
2021-01-12 Backing-up All Your Stuff: an 18TB Hard Drive installed in OWC Mercury Elite Pro USB 3.2 Enclosure
2021-01-04 Samsung T7 2TB USB-C SSD
2020-12-28 Some of my Favorite Stuff From OWC
2020-12-28 Some of my Favorite Stuff From OWC
2020-11-27 Apple Spyware in macOS Big Sur Cannot be Disabled (“sneak.berlin: Your Computer Isn’t Yours”)
2020-10-01 OWC Introduces OWC Mercury Pro LTO Tape Archiving Solution
2020-05-29 OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dock: Overview
2020-05-17 OWC ThunderBay 8: Overview
2020-05-17 OWC ThunderBay 8: Examples of Various Configurations using SoftRAID
2020-02-01 macOS Catalina 10.15.3 Disables all of my Samsung T5 Backup Drives
2020-01-09 2019 Mac Pro: IntegrityChecker Verify
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2020-12-28 Some of my Favorite Stuff From OWC
2020-12-09 Backup Battery Power During a Power Outage, Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)
2020-10-01 OWC Mercury Pro LTO Tape Archiving Solution for Videographers and Photo Studios, and Much More
2020-07-02 Putting the 16TB OWC Accelsior 4M2 PCIe SSD to Use as Main Storage
2020-05-12 Work from Home: Mac Pro deal, and what to get with it
2020-05-12 Work from Home: Apple iMac 5K, and What to Get With It
2020-05-12 Work from Home: Apple MacBook Pro, and What to Get With It
2020-01-11 Major Data Loss Today — But Luckily I Had Just Made Several Backups
2019-12-18 Validating Backups, Validating File Transfers, Data Integrity Over Time
2019-11-19 Reader Comments/Questions on the Apple 2019 MacBook Pro
2019-11-18 Great Deal on 2TB Samsung T5 SSD, a Terrific SSD for Backups and Travel
2019-03-10 Reader Comments: Just How Does the 2018 Mac mini Pan Out When Deploying for Professional Use?
2019-01-12 Reader Comment: Hard Drive Bad Sectors, Enterprise vs Consumer Drives
2019-01-11 Reader Comment: Hard Drive Error Rates
2019-01-10 Drives Full, Upgrading to OWC Thunderbay 6 with Six 14TB Drives (84TB total space)
2018-12-29 Adobe Lightroom: Basic Flaws Seem to Make it Unusable for My Needs
2018-12-25 Multi-Platform Data Integrity Over Time, Originals and Backups, Perils from Failures, Hackers, etc
2018-09-30 Data Integrity Over Time, and with OS Changes
2018-02-14 What Can an iMac Pro 18 Core Do? Coming Next Week to Find Out
2018-01-15 What Can an iMac Pro 18 Core Do?
2017-12-23 Carrying 2TB of Fast SSD in a Wallet or Small Pocket
2017-11-27 HOT! OWC Envoy Pro EX 2TB Thunderbolt 3 SSD + Time Machine and Backup Tips + More
2017-11-23 Why I Probably Will Never Buy a Mac Pro Again
2016-05-26 The Drive I Use for Backup in the Field
2015-12-04 Best Starter Camera Deal?
2015-10-22 Understanding the Sony A7R II Uncompressed ARW Raw Format
2015-10-22 Reader Question: Convert to DNG for Sony’s Space-Wasting 14-bit Uncompressed RAW Files?
2015-06-12 Tested: Lexar 256GB 1000X SDXC Card
2015-06-05 Lexar Professional 128GB Cards
2014-12-04 On the Road: a 1TB Bus-Powered SSD for Backup
2014-09-11 SanDisk 512GB SDXC Card
2014-06-03 Data Loss or Fault Tolerance?
2014-05-17 Safely Recording and Storing Video Footage (and stills): a Few Pointers
2014-05-09 4K Video Data Rates, Fault Tolerance, Backup
2014-01-06 Photographers Should Employ a Robust Backup Strategy
2013-11-11 Backup and Transferring Images: From the Field Laptop to Home Workstation
2013-04-14 A Robust Backup Process
2013-03-26 How to Safely Transfer Photos or Verify Backups: IntegrityChecker for OS X
2012-10-30 Phase One Capture One Pro 7 Licensing Scheme
2012-08-20 How to Use Your Camera’s Storage Card as a Backup — Downloading and Backing Up In the Field
2012-08-19 Using Dual Card Slots in the Nikon D800 / D800E (and Canon 5D Mark III)
2012-06-22 Why I Will Not Be Taking the MacBook Pro Retina Traveling With Me — Yet
2012-03-21 480GB SSD for only $599 — GREAT for Lightroom Catalog, Travel Backup, etc
2011-10-09 Backup for Photographers
2010-09-24 How to Safely Transfer Data or Verify Backups
2010-04-15 Why your backup might be slow
2010-03-31 OWC and DIGLLOYD offer ultra-high-performance Photo Workstations
2010-03-02 Using Apple Time Machine for backup
2009-11-25 Quad-core iMac vs Mac Pro — toy or serious tool?
2009-10-26 Checking data integrity of your files and backups
2009-06-17 Simple and cost-effective backups
2009-05-12 Backup solutions and rebates
2009-05-10 Backup your data/photos cost effectively
2009-05-01 Need backup space?
2008-09-01 Tip of the Day: Never go traveling without a backup camera
2007-03-02 Backup strategy
2007-01-20 Simple backup reminder
2006-02-15 New computer equipment
2006-01-01 Backing up is good to do...