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I just bought my 4th external USB3 SSD for my MacBookPro. I obviously don’t use all of them together, I just was just constructing my latest external Sockle storage bay. This time it’s a 1TB SSD and it’s a generation… Continue Reading →
My continued efforts to build a better laptop dock like this, or as I have called them, a ‘sockle’, can be followed on www.sockle.io This is the story of how I made my own pretty bamboo USB SSD disk expansion support… Continue Reading →
Storage vendors should come to me for heavy duty testing, I have way too much hard disks break down on me. Last year my 4TB Lacie drive died. It’s a good thing I’m paranoid about data storage and I had… Continue Reading →
One of the most popular pages on this blog is about a storage device that has a lot of enemies and few defenders, the SC101. It’s Windows-only, uses a proprietary filesystem and when (not if) it starts crashing, just say… Continue Reading →
After having Lacie, Maxtor, Iomega and most recently Netgear StorageCentral external storage fail on me, I am now the proud owner of a broken Western Digital My Book Pro II 1TB. I bought it less than a year ago and used… Continue Reading →
UPDATE: also read my post about testing the Netgear ReadyNAS (it doesn’t suck) In my continuing quest for more and better storage, I have taken the following path: Maxtor 5000DV, 120GB USB/Firewire, bought in 2003. Was dependable for 3 years… Continue Reading →