LaCie has announced a new Rugged Thunderbolt external drive with a 1TB SSD inside, which doubles the capacity to the existing Rugged SSD drive. [Read more…]
LaCie Announces First USB-C Hard Drive for New MacBook
LaCie looks to be the first company out of the gate with a new USB-C external drive that is compatible with Apple’s new MacBook. [Read more…]
G-Tech G-RAID Thunderbolt 2 and USB 3.0 Drives Unveiled
G-Technology has announced a new G-RAID drive with Thunderbolt 2 and USB 3.0, as well as a unit with just USB 3.0. [Read more…]
WD 8TB My Book Duo USB 3.0 Hard Drive Review
The WD 8TB My Book Duo external hard drive is one of the bigger dual drives in the My Book line (but there’s also a 12TB version). It can be configured in RAID 0, 1 or as a JBOD drive.
It is a USB 3.0 interface and comes pre-formatted in NTFS for Windows. However, I use it in a Mac environment and it was very simple to reformat it for Mac OS X. [Read more…]
Best Hard Drive – 2015 Edition
Backblaze just posted its data on failure rates of hard drives that it uses in its data center. At the end of 2014, it had 41,213 drives active for storing all of the data in its unlimited backup service.
It uses a variety of hard drive capacities across HGST (formerly Hitachi), Seagate and Western Digital. There is everything from 1.5TB to 6TB drives in operation. [Read more…]
Seagate Seven is the Thinnest 500GB Portable Drive
Seagate released a new 500GB hard drive at CES 2015 called the Seagate Seven. It is a 5mm spinning drive inside a minimalist housing for an overall 7mm thin hard drive. [Read more…]
LaCie Mirror External Hard Drive Unveiled
Along with its new Rugged RAID 4TB Thunderbolt drive, LaCie announced the its less-practical LaCie Mirror portable external drive at CES 2015. [Read more…]
4TB LaCie Rugged RAID with Thunderbolt Unveiled
LaCie announced its new Rugged RAID drive at CES 2015 with a Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 interface. The new drive uses two internal hard drives that are preconfigured in hardware RAID 0 for sustained performance of up to 240 MB/s. [Read more…]
Crucial SSD Upgrade Made My Old MacBook Pro Better than New
I had an aging MacBook Pro. It’s a 2011 model, which I believe is the first model with Thunderbolt. And while the Thunderbolt connectivity has been great, the internal 5400RPM hard drive has gotten slower and slower over the years.
After hearing plenty of reports on the benefits of upgrading to an internal SSD drive in these MacBook models, I finally bit the (surprising affordable) bullet and picked up a Crucial 512GB SSD for a little over $200. [Read more…]
LaCie Releases d2 Thunderbolt 2 Drive
LaCie recently revealed its new d2 Thunderbolt 2 external drive, which features dual Thunderbolt 2 and USB 3.0 connections. [Read more…]
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