A security vulnerability has been discovered in Seagate and LaCie portable wireless hard drives purchased since October 2014. Luckily, there's a firmware update that you can download and install that should address the issue.
Welcome to this week's edition of The Pixel Project: a weekly comic from Diesel Sweeties' Rich Stevens on Apple, technology, and everything in-between. Today: Replacing a loyal MacBook friend.
Having a 2.5-inch hard drive/SSD sled comes in really handy. When it looks great, it's even better. Whether you're a field tech or an armchair computer mechanic who occasionally has to do some triage on a hurting system, having a 2.5-inch USB drive sled in your tool kit is mandatory. VisionTek's new Wallet Drive combines plug-and-play simplicity with executive looks. The Good...
SanDisk is now selling a 128GB version of its iXpand Flash Drive that's been made for the iPhone and iPad. SanDisk previously launched versions of the iXpand Flash Drive with 16GB, 32GB and 64GB of storage. The company said: In response to customer demand, SanDisk is now offering a new 128GB iXpand Flash Drive. When used with the new iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPad Air 2 or...
One of the best ways to get more life out of an aging Mac is to upgrade the storage. In some cases you'll want to go faster. In other cases, you'll want to go bigger. I carried a MacBook Air for two years but gave up on it in favor of a Retina MacBook Pro with beefier SSD storage, and haven't regretted it. The MacBook Air is still with us, in the hands of my college-aged son. It's time...
OWC has announced that it is now shipping 1TB solid-state drive upgrades for the first-generation MacBook Pro with Retina display. The Aura 6G SSD actually comes in a bit smaller than 1TB at 960GB, and has peak transfer rates of 555/530 MB/s. You can get the 1TB Aura SSD from OWC for $549. However, OWC is also offering to bundle the Aura with its Envoy external enclosure. The Envoy...
SanDisk wants to make moving files from an iPhone or iPad to a Mac or Windows PC easier with the launch of the new iXpand Flash Drive and a companion iOS app.' SanDisk says: The iXpand Flash Drive is a powerful, yet simple-to-use solution that quickly transfers photos and videos from an iPhone or iPad to a Mac or PC — all without cables, Internet connections, or bandwidth...
For this roundup, we're looking specifically at portable external hard drives equipped with Thunderbolt interfaces.
When it comes time to buy an external hard drive for your Mac, you can really buy anything — just about any external hard drive equipped with USB 2.0 or 3.0 will work. But sometimes you're more comfortable dealing with a vendor that actually has a special focus on the Mac, so I've rounded up five of the best I've found. All the drives I've recommended are reasonably portable, and...
The Synology Diskstation DS1513+ is network attached storage (NAS) appliance that can be used for, among other things, Time Machine backups, media storage, and more. With 5 drive bays and 4 ethernet ports, it can scale up to 20TB and move it around at Gigabit speeds. There're also 4x USB, 2x USB 3, 2x eSATA, and support for Synology Hybrid RAID, RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10, and a bunch of...