It’s quiz time: what’s the single most important thing in your Mac computing environment? Is it the actual Mac model you use? Is it the size of the display attached to the Mac? The speed of the CPU?

We have had quite a few discussions about the differences between hardware and software RAID and I am hoping I can get some input on the topic. For instance let's say I had 10 TB I wanted to mirror as ...

So some time ago I was given a mandate to retire a bunch of old hardware and consolidate. This was/is still a wonderful idea, as under new management, all of a sudden there was an IT budget for the ...

Since the dawn of computing, long-term mass storage has been a primary factor in the design of systems. At issue is speed, density of storage, and of course, fault recovery. In the beginning of the PC ...

QuickTime7, Carbon, Ink, and Apple's own hardware RAID support look to be on the chopping block for macOS 10.15, along with the removal of support for 32-bit apps. It is anticipated Apple will be ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Have you ever wondered how multiple storage drives in your computer can work as if they were one? Even more baffling is how a computer can ...

Are you still using your RAID card for RAID? It’s time to move to software-based RAID—but don’t throw that RAID card out yet, it still has a lot of use in your homelab. If we rewind time even by just ...

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