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2020-07-12 NOW SHIPPING: OWC ThunderBay FLEX 8
2020-05-17 First Look: OWC ThunderBay 8
2020-01-11 Major Data Loss Today — But Luckily I Had Just Made Several Backups
2019-04-11 Reader Question: eGPU for Photoshop and Lightroom?
2019-03-10 Reader Comments: Just How Does the 2018 Mac mini Pan Out When Deploying for Professional Use?
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
2019-01-10 Drives Full, Upgrading to OWC Thunderbay 6 with Six 14TB Drives (84TB total space)
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2020-12-09 Reader Comment: “great fan of your work”
2020-09-06 OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8: Discussing Various Configuration Possibilities
2020-09-05 OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8: Overview
2020-09-05 OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8: Configuration Possibilities
2020-09-05 OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8: HDD Speed Across Volume Capacity, RAID-0 vs RAID-5
2020-09-05 OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8: HDD Speed vs Transfer Size
2020-09-05 OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8: SSD Speed Across Volume Capacity
2020-09-05 OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8: SSD Speed vs Transfer Size
2020-09-05 OWC Thunderbay FLEX 8: SD Camera Card Slot Speed
2020-07-30 TESTED: OWC Thunderbolt 3 10-Gigabit Ethernet Adapter
2020-07-10 OWC Announces SoftRAID for Windows
2020-07-06 Data Loss Prevented: IntegrityChecker Saves my Bacon by Detecting Corrupted Files after a Clone
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2020-07-12 NOW SHIPPING: OWC ThunderBay FLEX 8
2020-05-17 First Look: OWC ThunderBay 8
2020-01-11 Major Data Loss Today — But Luckily I Had Just Made Several Backups
2019-04-11 Reader Question: eGPU for Photoshop and Lightroom?
2019-03-10 Reader Comments: Just How Does the 2018 Mac mini Pan Out When Deploying for Professional Use?
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
2019-01-10 Drives Full, Upgrading to OWC Thunderbay 6 with Six 14TB Drives (84TB total space)
2018-07-04 OWC Express 4M2: 4-Slot M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure
2018-02-25 Get 4TB of SSD for about $776, Install in $90 Dual-Bay External — Super Convenient Capacious Storage
2017-11-25 Three Posts Useful for Photographers: 12TB Hard Drives, Avoiding macOS APFS, Partitioning 2TB SSD
2017-11-21 Black Friday Sneak Preview Deals at OWC + Note on Big Fast Thunderbolt Storage
2016-11-26 Black Friday Specials, Links (updated @ 16:50 PST Nov 26)
2016-11-24 TESTED: OWC 40TB Thunderbay 4 Mini SSD
2016-11-23 OWC 40TB Thunderbay 4 Mini SSD
2015-12-16 400GB SSD for $99: Old Dog Laptop? Puppy It! Or 1.6TB Thunderbolt SSD? Easy as Pie.
2015-11-12 How to Use 32TB or 40TB of 8TB Hard Drives?
2015-10-22 Understanding the Sony A7R II Uncompressed ARW Raw Format
2015-10-16 Big Fault-Tolerant Storage for Photographers: Deal on the OWC Thunderbay 4
2015-09-19 Two Products I Use Every Day
2015-08-22 Deal on Big Storage for Photographers: OWC Thunderbay 4 RAID-5 Edition with Extra 4TB Drive
2015-06-15 Canon 5DS R Expected Tomorrow
2015-05-15 20TB for Photography or Video Storage
2014-10-08 Big Storage for Video or Photography: 4TB, 5TB, 6TB Hard Drives
2014-08-04 Fault Tolerant Storage for Photographers or Videographers
2014-06-25 Big Storage for Video or Photography: OWC Ships Thunderbolt 2 Thunderbay
2014-06-08 Software RAID and Fault Tolerant Storage for Photographers and Videographers (RAID-5, RAID-1+0, etc)
2014-06-03 Data Loss or Fault Tolerance?
2014-05-28 Storing and Storing Video Footage: Fault Tolerance the Right Way to Go
2014-05-17 Safely Recording and Storing Video Footage (and stills): a Few Pointers
2010-05-14 MacBook Pro SSD single and RAID vs hard drive
2010-05-11 OWC announces new solid state drive capacities
2010-04-16 Other World Computing 200GB enterprise grade SSD
2010-03-31 OWC and DIGLLOYD offer ultra-high-performance Photo Workstations
2010-02-11 OWC Mercury Extreme SSD as fast RAID-0 stripe 4 drives
2010-02-10 OWC Mercury Extreme enterprise-class RAID-ready SSD
2010-01-26 OWC enterprise-grade solid state drives (SSD)
2010-01-20 RAID 5 for performance and reliability
2009-12-28 Installation videos for all Macs
2009-12-28 Adobe Lightroom 3 beta performance — not good
2009-10-25 Apple’s new MacMini — good for photographers?
2009-10-20 Apple’s new quad-core iMac — analysis
2009-10-01 Reviewed: 4-bay RAID enclosures
2009-09-12 Snow Leopard kernel panic with mirrored RAID
2009-05-10 Backup your data/photos cost effectively
2009-05-01 Need backup space?
2009-02-14 Intel X25-M in a Mac Pro with RAID
2009-02-12 Booted off striped RAID-0 Solid State drives
2008-11-11 Photoshop CS4 performance bugs
2008-07-04 Testing New memory and hard disks
2008-06-01 Data redundancy (RAID mirror)
2008-04-07 Samsung 1 terabyte hard drives—not recommended
2008-01-29 New Mac Pro? Why you should be using DiskTester
2007-11-13 One terabyte (1000GB) hard drives
2006-12-27 Screaming deal on 500GB Maxtor Maxline Pro 7H500F0