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Backups are one of those ambiguous tasks. Deep down, you know you ought to be doing something, and there is always the sinking feeling that there is room for improvement. Managing data can come with a certain sense of anxiety, especially if you have ever accidentally lost something important. It doesn’t matter what your profession is – data is often...
The great fear of tech implementation always harkens back to data mining and exposure. So, imagine my surprise when I saw that, on June 8th, Amazon began automatically enabling WiFi sharing on connected hardware. Through a unique wireless network called...
When multiple hard drives are leveraged together, the drives work in tandem – called a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks). There are numerous different RAID types, and each RAID selection offers benefits and drawbacks. Picking the right RAID level depends on how...
WWDC 2021 Next week will be Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference, and that means it's time for the annual making of the wishlists and predictions. Apple is in the thick of its transition away from Intel processors to Apple Silicon....
You may have seen MIL-STD-810G on OWC products. It’s usually next to the word “rugged” or “military.” You may even know that it refers to a set of standards used to evaluate the durability of certain hardware solutions. But what...
What is a video codec? The word "codec" comes from a mashup of "encode" and "decode." So a video codec is the specific video format of your file. Your camera encodes the visual data of a scene into a format,...
