My recent experience with water damage to my new 16-inch MacBook Pro reinforced two practices that I've followed for many years; making a bootable backup and creating a bootable macOS install drive. While I was able to reload my MacBook...
Touch, See, and Demo the newest storage, connectivity, software and expansion solutions for musicians, producers and photographers at Booth #11902. OWC has solidified its plans for The NAMM Show, taking place January 16-19 at the Anaheim Convention Center. Attendees can visit...
December of 2019 marks 35 years since I purchased my first Mac. In all that time, I’ve never had an accident with any of them…but this past Saturday, all it took was a simple bump of a glass of water on my desk, and now my new 16-inch MacBook Pro is “not so new.” I want to share my tale of woe and provide readers of The Rocket Yard with a few tips on what to do to minimize the chances of something like this happening to them.
As many are wont to do, we here at Rocket Yard like to take some time to reflect at the beginning of each new year. We look back at what went well and what hurdles we encountered. We celebrate the victories and learn from the challenges. In 2019, we saw our readership grow by 29% – that’s a fantastic increase that we can only attribute to you. And for that, we thank you!
macOS Recovery is part of the built-in recovery system of your Mac. It can help you restore data from Time Machine, reinstall the operating system, get online help online, repair or erase a hard disk, and much more. You can start up from macOS Recovery and use its utilities to recover from many types of software issues or take other actions on your Mac such as...
CES 2020 kicks off January 7th in Las Vegas and runs through the 10th. But if you think the coolest thing you'll see is the Charmin RollBot, you'll be wrong because OWC is exhibiting a lineup of new hardware and software products. Here is a preview of several new and exciting things currently in the OWC pipeline and a few other choice pieces of gear to be showcased this week at CES that are already available at MacSales.com!
Professional-Grade Data Storage for Everyone that Delivers the Perfect Combination of Speed, Size and Redundancy Four 2.5-inch drive bays, up to 16TB capacity, SoftRAID setup, and management software, and real-world speeds up to 1556MB/s in a pro-grade, super-compact Thunderbolt 3...
Snapshots are a feature of APFS (Apple File System) that has been part of the macOS since High Sierra. A snapshot captures the state of an APFS formatted drive, and preserves all the files on the drive, as they appeared when the snapshot was taken. If you ever need to, you can roll back the drive to its previous state. In this Rocket Yard guide, we're going to take a look at APFS snapshots, how they’re created, managed, and deleted, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of snapshots.
DIY OWC Memory Upgrades for iMac 5K Nothing makes that 5K iMac perform like a pro then loading it up with more memory. Free install video. PRICES JUST REDUCED 16GB from $77.98 $46.76 32GB from $155.96 $115.04 64GB from $347.52...
