by Aaron Crabtree | May 7, 2012 | Blog, Data backup, PC Hardware
Hitachi has a line of external USB hard drives that are appearing now. They are fairly cheap, come in 1 and 2 TB versions, and they are large. (The size is not really a positive…) Anyway, they come with very nice drives inside (The 2TB version has a 7K3000 6Gbps...
by Aaron Crabtree | Mar 9, 2012 | Apple, Blog, Data backup, MacOS, PC Hardware
If you want to connect a hard drive to your Apple Airport Extreme router, you need to format it using the the GUID Partition Table (GPT) and format the partition as Apple Filing System (AFS) journeled. The problem is that Disk Utility formats external drives as Master...
by Aaron Crabtree | Mar 4, 2012 | Apple, Blog, Data backup, MacOS, PC Hardware, Technology
Oh Apple, so many of us trust your well thought-out products and don’t complain when you remove features. After all, if you remove it, then we must not need it! Apple, if you ever read this post, please consider adding your Disk First Aid utility to the Airport...
by Aaron Crabtree | Feb 3, 2011 | Apple, Blog, Data backup, MacOS, PC Hardware, Technology
Apple tends to fit many Macs with small-ish hard drives. Now to be fair the Mac apps also tend to be smaller than Windows equivalents so you may not need a bigger drive. But if you work with a lot of media (pictures, videos, music) you’ll run out of space...
by Aaron Crabtree | Sep 11, 2009 | Blog, Data backup, PC Hardware
I had a PC running at my house that was running a web server, ftp server and performing some other tasks so it was turned on 24 hours per day. It ran for about 3 years in this state. I finally decided to turn it off and after three days of being turned off, it...
by Aaron Crabtree | Sep 7, 2009 | Blog, Data backup
Hard drive capacity is astonishing! 1 terabyte drives are available for about $100. But if you consider that you can store 1 terabyte of data on something that only costs $100, you begin to realize that data integrity might become an issue. If you’ve had a...
