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...
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...
It’s been widely covered how external drive performance is unacceptably slow with M1 Macs. Well, we have some breaking news on this and you’re reading it here first on the Rocketyard Blog...
After receiving the new Apple MacBook Air with the M1 chip on Tuesday, we filmed the unboxing (coming soon). However, we held off shooting the teardown video for fear that the Auto-On feature would trigger a bricking of the machine...
Nobody likes to experience a kernel panic on their Mac. This is when your Mac restarts itself while you are working. After it finishes the restart process, you see a dialog telling you that your Mac shut down because of a...
Are you working on a movie set, transferring hundreds of gigabytes from a camera card to a RAID array? Are you a photographer trying to copy a large project from one volume to another? If so, you may have already encountered hangs copying files after you upgraded to macOS 10.15.4. When you encounter the hang we are discussing, you can still move your mouse but are no longer able to copy files.
