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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 does MIL-STD-810G actually mean? Where does the classification come from, and what exactly does it describe? In this article, we...
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,...
Remote work is on the rise, which means you may have recently realized that your computer isn’t up to the task of wired networking. If this is the case, you aren’t alone. There’s such a demand for wired networking that...
What is a NAS? If you’ve been looking to increase the amount of storage for your setup, you’ve probably come across the abbreviation NAS. It stands for Network Attached Storage. It refers to a hard drive or group of hard...
Nowadays, there are so many different kinds of wires and connections. Some of the most popular are USB-C, Thunderbolt 3, Thunderbolt 4, and USB 4 – but what’s the difference? Michelle walks us through in this RocketYard Video.
In our recent post, Get Up to 67% Faster External Drive Performance With Your M1 Mac, we promised to keep looking into the Thunderbolt drive speed issues. We wanted to do some additional testing to see what other device configurations...
