One of the highlights of using a Mac is the freedom to use third-party applications. However, with the freedom comes the risk of running an […]
Sometimes you need an emergency startup disk, or an alternate startup disk for testing your Mac. Read on for more information on how to create […]
Apple’s most recent Macs utilize a new family of ‘Apple Silicon’ processors instead of utilizing Intel. As a result, these new Macs operate a bit […]
If your Mac is running slowly, crashing, or just generally misbehaving, and you’re not entirely sure what the problem is, one place to look is […]
TechTool Pro can automatically send an email message alerting you if a volume exceeds the volume usage threshold, if the SMART Check fails along with […]
Reading SMART attributes from external drives connected via USB or FireWire requires that you install the SAT SMART Driver so your Mac can ‘see’ the […]
Macs released over the last five years or so are now using a new internal storage connection called NVMe (or PCI-Express) for the internal SSD. […]
OWC Aura SSDs do not pass SMART data over the PCIe connection, so these drives are listed as Not Supported in Apple’s Disk Utility, and […]
SMART data relies on the hardware passing that data directly. However, RAID controllers simulate their drives to the system as logical (virtual) disks. Because they […]
There is a known issue with solid state drives produced by Toshiba for Apple. Solid state drives for these particular MacBook Airs (model numbers APPLE […]
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