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Quick Tip: Save Battery by Spinning Down Hard Drive Sooner

It seems to be a never-ending battle - trying to get the most out of your laptop battery. It always seems like you run out of battery power at the worst possible moment. And as amazingly convenient as the OWC Data Doubler makes adding a second drive to your MacBook Pro, that just means you now have two drives sucking...

Back Up Your Data & Save A Squirrel

A couple of months ago, OWC Stephen wrote an article that dealt with RAID units not being a “true” backup for your data. This caused confusion for some people; after all, RAID has built-in redundancy (it’s the first letter, for...

Quick “Stocking Stuffer” Tech Tips from OWC

Are you a new Macintosh user? Perhaps you’re just new to Lion or maybe you’ve been using Macs for years and you just want to brush up on things? Whatever the case, the OWC Tech crew have gotten together to...

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Hear Your iDevices’ Full Potential

Little known and less often written about is the sound quality that the iPhone 4, iPad, and the latest iPod touch are capable of outputting. Apple must’ve upgraded something in the hardware or software design because these iDevices can output...

Teach your Mac New Things – Keep Your Software Up-To-Date.

Not everybody is running the “latest and greatest” versions of software. This is extra true when it’s something like Adobe Creative Suite, which can easily top a grand each time a new version comes out. While the extra features may...

Take It from a Tech: RAID ≠ Proper Backup

I thought that today I would try to clear up a misconception that I encounter fairly often on the topic of data storage. I'll start with a couple of examples: Say a customer is looking for a RAID solution like...

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