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New Installation Videos: PowerBook G4 15” & 17”

Installation junkies rejoice! We’ve got some more instructional videos for you. This time around we’re covering the two machines we’ve received the most requests for: the 17” PowerBook G4 and the 15” PowerBook G4 (Aluminum). For each ‘Book, we show you how to upgrade or replace the Memory, Hard Drive and Optical Drive. That’s six total videos’ worth of instruction....

Four Reasons to Partition Your Drive

Being a member of the Sales team here at OWC, I get exposed to a lot of customer inquiries on how to properly set up their hard drives. Hard drive performance is a critical component of overall system performance, especially...

Consider Keeping a Backup of Your Data Off-Site

Several months ago, I had a catastrophic drive failure with my main music computer which wiped out my audio drive & motherboard!  I decided then and there that I would never let myself be vulnerable for data loss again. I...

Data Backup 3 Updated to Version 3.1.1

In case you didn't know this, all OWC and Newer Technology storage solutions come bundled with a copy of Prosoft Engineering's Data Backup 3 software. Data Backup 3 is a powerful utility that allows you to backup, restore and synchronize...

1.4 million files can’t be wrong… or can they?

Recently, while doing a little "housekeeping" on my work Mac, I noticed that I had less than 10% of my drive available. While I do have a lot of large project files I work on from day to day, I...

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