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2024-01-09 Reviewed: Four 22TB Hard Drives
2023-06-12 Backup Headache: When Data Overflows a Single Backup Drive — what do do, and which Drives?
2023-06-12 Backup Headache: When Data Overflows a Single Backup Drive — what do do, and which Drives?
2023-04-04 Which High Capacity Hard Drive for Photos/Video? Best Value/Performance?
2023-03-31 Using 4TB USB-C SSDs for Photo/Video Backup, Which One? (Clear Choice!)
2023-03-17 Ideal Stuff for Photography/Video Storage: Samsung T7 2TB SSD + 20TB/22TB Hard Drives
2022-03-15 18TB Hard Drive only $299, Mad March Savings at OWC
2021-01-29 Big and Fast Hard Drive for Photography and Videography
2020-12-28 Some of my Favorite Stuff From OWC
2020-06-10 Reader Question: File Format Longevity, Particularly for Digital RAW Files
2020-01-02 MAJOR Performance Improvements to diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java version 1.1b10
2019-02-18 Delayed For Days: Hard Drive Horrors
2019-01-12 Reader Comment: Hard Drive Bad Sectors, Enterprise vs Consumer Drives
2019-01-11 Reader Comment: Hard Drive Error Rates
2018-06-22 OWC Hard Drive and SSD Savings
2018-05-26 OWC May Hard Drive and SSD Savings
2017-12-23 Carrying 2TB of Fast SSD in a Wallet or Small Pocket
2017-11-25 Three Posts Useful for Photographers: 12TB Hard Drives, Avoiding macOS APFS, Partitioning 2TB SSD
2017-05-18 Deals on Hard Drives
2016-09-16 OWC Drive Dock Now Available in USB 3.1 Gen 1 for about $75
2016-08-04 NEW! Cross Platform Java-Based diglloydTools IntegrityChecker
2016-04-17 Using 8TB Hard Drives in Older Mac Pro
2015-11-12 How to Use 32TB or 40TB of 8TB Hard Drives?
2015-11-11 Photoshop/Lightroom Problem + Deals on Hard Drives and Memory + Testing 8TB Hard Drives
2014-11-14 4TB of SSD or 8TB of HDD in Thunderbolt 2 Mini Enclosure
2014-10-08 Big Storage for Video or Photography: 4TB, 5TB, 6TB Hard Drives
2012-04-12 Fastest 2TB Drive? And up to 16TB in a Mac Pro with FAST 4TB Hard Drives
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2023-12-30 Reviewed: Four 22TB Hard Drives
2023-12-30 Four 22TB Hard Drives
2023-06-17 TESTED: Seagate Iron Wolf Pro 22TB Hard Drive
2023-05-16 Reader Question: APFS or HFS for Hard Drive Backup?
2023-04-05 TESTED: WD Purple Pro 22TB Hard Drive (vs Seagate Iron Wolf Pro 20TB)
2023-04-03 Western Digital Purple Pro 22TB Hard Drive
2023-01-22 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 3.0 fc9
2022-09-18 IntegrityChecker (icj) Java Release 3.0 fc3 — Public Release of IntegrityChecker Java version 3.0
2022-09-02 Too-Small Internal SSD? Fast External SSDs are a Great Way to Add Space
2022-08-29 Hard Drives: When a More Expensive Drive Costs a Lot Less
2022-08-21 TESTED: Seagate Iron Wolf Pro 20TB hard drive
2022-08-21 Seagate Iron Wolf Pro 20TB Hard Drive
2022-03-15 18TB Hard Drive only $299, Mad March Savings at OWC
2022-01-03 IntegrityChecker Java (icj): How to Eliminate the WARN_IO_STALL Messages
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2024-01-09 Reviewed: Four 22TB Hard Drives
2023-06-12 Backup Headache: When Data Overflows a Single Backup Drive — what do do, and which Drives?
2023-06-12 Backup Headache: When Data Overflows a Single Backup Drive — what do do, and which Drives?
2023-04-04 Which High Capacity Hard Drive for Photos/Video? Best Value/Performance?
2023-03-31 Using 4TB USB-C SSDs for Photo/Video Backup, Which One? (Clear Choice!)
2023-03-17 Ideal Stuff for Photography/Video Storage: Samsung T7 2TB SSD + 20TB/22TB Hard Drives
2022-03-15 18TB Hard Drive only $299, Mad March Savings at OWC
2021-01-29 Big and Fast Hard Drive for Photography and Videography
2020-12-28 Some of my Favorite Stuff From OWC
2020-06-10 Reader Question: File Format Longevity, Particularly for Digital RAW Files
2020-01-02 MAJOR Performance Improvements to diglloydTools IntegrityChecker Java version 1.1b10
2019-02-18 Delayed For Days: Hard Drive Horrors
2019-01-12 Reader Comment: Hard Drive Bad Sectors, Enterprise vs Consumer Drives
2019-01-11 Reader Comment: Hard Drive Error Rates
2018-06-22 OWC Hard Drive and SSD Savings
2018-05-26 OWC May Hard Drive and SSD Savings
2017-12-23 Carrying 2TB of Fast SSD in a Wallet or Small Pocket
2017-11-25 Three Posts Useful for Photographers: 12TB Hard Drives, Avoiding macOS APFS, Partitioning 2TB SSD
2017-05-18 Deals on Hard Drives
2016-09-16 OWC Drive Dock Now Available in USB 3.1 Gen 1 for about $75
2016-08-04 NEW! Cross Platform Java-Based diglloydTools IntegrityChecker
2016-04-17 Using 8TB Hard Drives in Older Mac Pro
2015-11-12 How to Use 32TB or 40TB of 8TB Hard Drives?
2015-11-11 Photoshop/Lightroom Problem + Deals on Hard Drives and Memory + Testing 8TB Hard Drives
2014-11-14 4TB of SSD or 8TB of HDD in Thunderbolt 2 Mini Enclosure
2014-10-08 Big Storage for Video or Photography: 4TB, 5TB, 6TB Hard Drives
2012-04-12 Fastest 2TB Drive? And up to 16TB in a Mac Pro with FAST 4TB Hard Drives
2010-05-14 MacBook Pro SSD single and RAID vs hard drive
2010-04-14 OWC and DIGLLOYD offer ultra-high-performance MPG Pro Laptop
2010-02-19 Detecting a failing hard drive
2010-01-01 Reviewed: OWC Elite-AL Pro mini hard drive enclosure
2009-11-25 Quad-core iMac vs Mac Pro — toy or serious tool?
2009-10-20 Apple’s new quad-core iMac — analysis
2009-09-22 Hitachi Deskstar 2TB 7200 rpm hard drive — wow!
2009-09-13 OWC On-The-Go solid state drive (SSD) reviewed
2009-08-11 Capacious 2TB hard drives compared
2009-05-21 Seagate Momentus 7200.4 laptop hard drive
2008-09-26 Seagate 1 Terabyte SATA II hard drives only $122
2008-04-07 Samsung 1 terabyte hard drives—not recommended
2008-02-24 Best boot drive for a Mac Pro
2008-02-20 Seagate 1 terabyte (1000GB/1TB) ES.1 hard drives
2008-02-15 One terabyte drives
2007-12-16 Hard drive failure—emails lost
2007-11-13 One terabyte (1000GB) hard drives
2007-03-17 Six hard drives in a Mac pro
2007-03-02 Mac Pro power usage
2007-02-28 Mac Pro comments
2006-12-28 Eight internal hard drives in a Mac Pro?
2006-11-23 New review page: Hard Drives
2006-11-03 Hard drives: Maxtor 7V300F0 vs 7V320F0 AMUG review
2006-03-03 BareFeats.com reports on fast hard drives
2006-03-01 Purchasing a new MacBook Pro? Laptop hard-drive speed.
2006-02-16 Maxtor 7V300F0 300GB hard drive performance
2006-02-10 Testing hard disk speed and reliability
2006-01-01 Backing up is good to do...