I think the consensus on hard drive upgrades to notebooks is: only for the really, really, really serious. It's not a trivial operation, and, yes, it does void (AFAIK) your AppleCare '” the hard drive ...

Updated 1/20/2023 with new recommendations for SSD drives and cables based on current models, pricing, and reviews, as well as updated drive cloning instructions There are many ways to make a slow ...

I have a 4TB WD red drive that started acting odd. It seemed to be gobbling up space, the drive said it was full, so I would delete 20-60GB and after downloading 10-20GB the drive would be full again.

It’s always a strange moment saying goodbye to a technology you’ve used forever, and I now find myself waving farewell to another one: the humble spinning-platter hard drive. Sure, I’ve been using ...

Mea culpa. If you bought a MacBook between 2006 and 2007 and your hard drive sounds like an unoiled rock tumbler trying to work its way through a belly full of rusty bolts, you could be eligible for a ...

As part of the eternal quest within the realm of retrocomputing, storage devices can be one of the most challenging, especially when it comes to firmly obsolete hard drives, such as the CDC Finch ...

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