Hard drive Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Get back your HD info in Lion

by Michael Rose (Jul 20th, 2011)

Looking for that handy readout at the bottom of every Finder window telling you how many items are in the active folder, and how much free space is on your hard drive? In OS X 10.7 Lion, it's turned off by default (part of the cleaner, scrollbar-free new UI style). Easy enough to restore it, ...

TUAW's Daily Mac App: Disk Inventory X

by Samuel Gibbs (Jul 8th, 2011)

With Lion on the way, maybe it's time to give your Mac a bit of spring cleaning. The best place to start is always the hard drive, and Disk Inventory X is a great tool. You let Disk Inventory X scan your hard drive and it creates a visual representation of the used file space on your disk ...

GoFlex Satellite is your iPad's portable, wireless hard drive

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 16th, 2011)

Seagate introduced the GoFlex Satellite, a portable, battery-powered hard drive targeted for iOS devices. The external hard drive includes an iOS app for the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch that lets you browse and view multimedia files stored on the drive. Different than most external drives, the ...

HDD Fan Control software addresses iMac hard drive replacement issue

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 13th, 2011)

Yesterday, Other World Computing wrote a post suggesting you could not install third-party hard drives in the new Sandy Bridge iMacs. According to OWC, any change in the hard drive or switching to a hard drive bay would cause the drive fan to spin at maximum speed. Though this problem does ...

OWC: Replacing main hard drive with third-party is not an option in new iMacs

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 12th, 2011)

The folks over at Other World Computing, best known for providing affordable upgrades for your Mac, delivered some bad news regarding installing a third-party hard drive in the new Sandy Bridge iMacs. Apparently, Apple altered the SATA power connector in such a way that removing the hard drive ...

Ask TUAW: iPad browser refreshing, iPhone headphones, laptop upgrades and more

by Ask TUAW (Apr 13th, 2011)

Welcome to Ask TUAW, your favorite weekly question-and-answer column. Now, we can never have too many questions, so please, go to the comments of this post and ask away. To get fabulous answers, we need your fabulous questions. You can also email your questions directly to ask [at] tuaw.com, or ...

USB 3.0 for Mac benchmarks and review

by Dave Caolo (Dec 20th, 2010)

Don't let Apple's lack of USB 3.0 support get you down. LaCie has you covered with the 2big USB 3.0 RAID drive, and Engadget has run benchmarks on it. The gang used a "relatively new" Mac Pro with the following specs: Apple Mac Pro (2009) 2.66GHz quad-core Intel Xeon 'Nehalem' CPU 6GB (2 x ...

Online Apple Store adds one-click "popular configurations" option

by Michael Rose (Dec 16th, 2010)

Just in time for those holiday orders, there's been a small change in the online Apple Store's build-to-order pages for the MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. Dave "Eagle-Eye" Caolo spotted the addition of new one-click BTO configurations, which include free express shipping. The new one-click ...

3TB HD, triple SSD iMac turnkey drive upgrades available from OWC

by Steven Sande (Dec 7th, 2010)

In the never-ending search for bigger and faster storage options, Mac users have a number of sources for hard drives, but OWC has been a favorite for many Apple fans since the late 1980s. Now the company is offering a set of turnkey eSATA add-ons and upgrades for mid-2010 27" iMacs that should make ...

TUAW's Holiday Gift Guide: External drives for every Mac

by Steven Sande (Nov 24th, 2010)

Welcome to the TUAW Holiday Gift Guide! We've sorted the treasure from the junk and are serving up suggestions to make your holiday gift-giving a little easier. Giving someone a new hard drive can be one of the best gift choices ever. Whether the recipient uses it to store backups of their photos ...

IPad is affecting the hard drive industry, but MacBook Air could deal a fatal blow

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Oct 21st, 2010)

A piece of news that got brushed aside for a bit yesterday due to the "Back to the Mac" event, Western Digital chief executive John Coyne said that the company has taken a hit due to the iPad's popularity. The result is a 10 to 20 percent drop in shipments of hard drives for low-end netbooks and ...

TUAW's review of the DroboPro, plus a discount deal for readers

by Steven Sande (Sep 4th, 2009)

Data Robotics delivered their "super-sized" version of the Drobo earlier this year. DroboPro has 8 drive bays into which you can drop 3.5" SATA drives of almost any capacity, from the old 160 GB model you've been using to hold the backup of your iTunes library to that 2 TB Western Digital Caviar ...

Snow Leopard: The new one gigabyte, now slimmer than before

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Aug 29th, 2009)

We've gotten more than a few emails over the past 24 hours ruminating over how Snow Leopard has changed the way that file and drive sizes are calculated. It's been traumatic for some, having a psychological effect similar to Pluto losing its status as a full-fledged planet. A great post over at ...

Hacking in a second hard drive in a MacBook Pro

by Tim Wasson (Aug 24th, 2009)

Need more hard drive space in your MacBook Pro? Well, if you're not scared to get your hands dirty with a little hacking, and not too attached to your DVD drive, you can hack your way to twice the hard drives. This particular user faced a dilemma when purchasing his new MacBook Pro: get the ...

Apple releases fixes for Bluetooth and MacBook Pro hard drives

by Joachim Bean (Aug 19th, 2009)

Apple has just released two firmware updates, one fixing issues with Bluetooth and the the other fixing the MacBook Pro hard drive noise issue. The first, Bluetooth Firmware Update 2.0.1, fixes bugs and improves compatibility with the Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse and Apple Wireless Keyboard. It's ...