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2023-11-26 ON SALE NOW: OWC Gear Proven in my Workflow

2023-11-20 A Pro Photographer’s Guide to Fast Data Backup in the Field 📹

2023-11-12 Choosing an SDXC or CFExpress Type B Camera Cards: Reader Question for Fujifilm GFX100S 📹

2023-11-11 Choosing an SDXC or CFExpress Type B Camera Cards: What Speed do you Need? 📹

2023-09-09 Emergency Backup Power for you Phone: Battarix SOS charge card

2023-07-17 Nikon Z8: Usability, Focus Stacking Conclusions

2023-06-18 Display Calibration over HDMI?

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?

2023-06-02 Accepted OWC Brand Ambassador for OWC Atlas Camera Cards + Why I Use High Capacity Cards and Never Erase Them On a Trip

2023-05-30 Camera Cards for Wallet Backups

2023-05-30 What Capacity Camera Cards for Field Work? Bigger is Always Better, Here’s Why

2023-04-28 Got One: Deeply Discounted Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max + Monterey vs Ventura

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

2022-12-18 Adobe DNG Converter: Possible Loss of Metadata, Guaranteed Loss of File Dates, but Space Savings for Uncompressed RAW

2022-12-15 How much is Sony Botched Camera and Software Design $Costing You? Is Adobe DNG Converter Viable? The Sony Workflow TAX

2022-12-05 Sony A7R V Poor Design: Pixel Shift Disallows Lossless Compressed RAW, Lacks 8-Shot and 32-shot modes

2022-12-03 OWC Deals: Load up on HUGE Storage, Max-Out Memory, etc

2022-04-14 IntegrityChecker Java for Windows Now Available for Download

2021-10-12 Portable SSDs for Travel Storage and Especially Backup

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: Apple iMac 5K, and What to Get With It

2020-05-12 Work from Home: Apple MacBook Pro, and What to Get With It

2020-05-12 Work from Home: Mac Pro deal, 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

Nikon Z8

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Blog posts, reverse chronological

2023

2023-11-26 ON SALE NOW: OWC Gear Proven in my Workflow

2023-11-20 A Pro Photographer’s Guide to Fast Data Backup in the Field 📹

2023-11-12 Choosing an SDXC or CFExpress Type B Camera Cards: Reader Question for Fujifilm GFX100S 📹

2023-11-11 Choosing an SDXC or CFExpress Type B Camera Cards: What Speed do you Need? 📹

2023-09-09 Emergency Backup Power for you Phone: Battarix SOS charge card

2023-07-17 Nikon Z8: Usability, Focus Stacking Conclusions

2023-06-18 Display Calibration over HDMI?

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?

2023-06-02 Accepted OWC Brand Ambassador for OWC Atlas Camera Cards + Why I Use High Capacity Cards and Never Erase Them On a Trip

2023-05-30 Camera Cards for Wallet Backups

2023-05-30 What Capacity Camera Cards for Field Work? Bigger is Always Better, Here’s Why

2023-04-28 Got One: Deeply Discounted Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max + Monterey vs Ventura

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

2022-12-18 Adobe DNG Converter: Possible Loss of Metadata, Guaranteed Loss of File Dates, but Space Savings for Uncompressed RAW

2022-12-15 How much is Sony Botched Camera and Software Design $Costing You? Is Adobe DNG Converter Viable? The Sony Workflow TAX

2022-12-05 Sony A7R V Poor Design: Pixel Shift Disallows Lossless Compressed RAW, Lacks 8-Shot and 32-shot modes

2022-12-03 OWC Deals: Load up on HUGE Storage, Max-Out Memory, etc

2022-04-14 IntegrityChecker Java for Windows Now Available for Download

2021

2021-10-12 Portable SSDs for Travel Storage and Especially Backup

2020

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: Apple iMac 5K, and What to Get With It

2020-05-12 Work from Home: Apple MacBook Pro, and What to Get With It

2020-05-12 Work from Home: Mac Pro deal, and what to get with it

2020-01-11 Major Data Loss Today — But Luckily I Had Just Made Several Backups

2019

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

2018-12-29 Adobe Lightroom: Basic Flaws Seem to Make it Unusable for My Needs

2018-12-26 Workflow Tip: Locking DNG Files to Prevent Modification by Lightroom/Photoshop, Greatly Reduces Backup Time

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

2018-04-28 OWC Thunderblade SSD Shipping in All Capacities up to 8TB — Ideal for Video Production and Capture. and/or Silent and High Capacity Photoshop Workflow

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

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

2016-05-26 The Drive I Use for Backup in the Field

2015

2015-12-14 OWC Drive Dock Takes 2 Bare Drives (HDD or SSD), Thunderbolt 2 or USB3: General Use, Video-Shoot Backup, etc

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

2015-05-20 Does the Nikon D810 Have a Problem in Sub-Freezing Temperatures? Or is it the card or something else?

2014

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

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

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

2011-10-09 Backup for Photographers

2010

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

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

2008-09-01 Tip of the Day: Never go traveling without a backup camera

2007

2007-03-02 Backup strategy

2007-01-20 Simple backup reminder

2006

2006-02-15 New computer equipment

2006-01-01 Backing up is good to do...

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