Over on TidBITS Talk, user Lucas043 posed a question that prompted a fascinating discussion. Lucas043 has a Samsung Portable T7 SSD being used for backup. The SSD has intermittent access problems and ...

A Solid State Drive is primarily used on laptops and other lightweight devices, as its compact size proves adequate for such portable hardware units. Much like conventional hard disks, Solid State ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Cloning a storage disk is a great way to manage your digital data. Whether you want to use the cloned disk as a backup in case of a hardware ...

Some Macworld readers are concerned about upgrading to macOS High Sierra, which offers the new APFS (Apple File System) that replaces the nearly 20-year-old HFS+ filesystem. APFS offers a lot of ...

About six weeks ago I bought a refurbished Lenovo T400 laptop with docking station for use on my desk at home. I have been very pleased with it so far - in fact, I would say that I could almost not be ...

There it was, Wednesday evening, and I was working hard to finish something for the day. Then I received an email from Watchman Monitoring, an essential tool used by sysadmins and consultants to keep ...

Long-time Mac upgrade vendor OWC will soon launch SMART Alec, a utility to keep an eye on the health reporting data from SSDs, hard drives, and Fusion Drives connected to a Mac. SMART Alec's Advanced ...

A hiccup gave me the opportunity to create my own bootable drive using the latest version of DiskWarrior Recovery Maker (v1.1), a three-minute process. I tested DiskWarrior's three main functions. S.M ...

The CoreStorage volume manager behind Apple's Fusion Drive can be used to create your own spanned volumes in any Mac running Lion or later. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

In the world of hard drive information utilities, https://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,198433/description.html (free) is a gem. A venerable one at that–it’s ...