All storage fails. The only question is when. For critical data: LOCKSS. Lots Of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe. I've relied on daily bootable backups to keep my business running for over 15 years. But the ...

Apple's latest M1 Macs -- and many Intel-based ones, for that matter -- all use the company's T2 security chip, which encrypts the system's built-in storage. The issue with highly-integrated ...

Recent reports have shown that some users of M1 Macs are experiencing what they feel is unreasonable, excessive usage of the SSD. One in particular showed 15TB written in two months. That’s quite a ...

There are numerous reports from M1 Mac users that macOS is giving out worrying hard drive health reports which could indicate severe life span problems. 2TB 16GB model. 3% used. That means that for a ...

In a bit of a bad week for the M1 Mac – with reports of two examples of malware being found targeting M1 Macs – we are now hearing reports that the M1 Mac’s SSD could experience excessive wear and ...

Users of Apple’s newest M1-powered Macs are reporting that there is extremely high drive writes over a short period of time, and the most extreme cases resulted in approximately 10-13% of the maximum ...

Bombich Software recently updated Carbon Copy Cloner to version 6, and its founder, Mike Bombich, posted a blog entry explaining some of the intricacies involved with updating cloning software for Big ...

Using a tool called Smart Monitoring Tools in Terminal, the drive's SMART data brings up a "Percentage Used" score, which refers to how much of the TBW a drive has achieved in its lifespan, among ...

Some advanced users have been reporting an overuse of the SSD for writing and reading data on the newly released Macs with M1, Apple’s first computer chip based on ARM architecture. The issue could ...

Recently, a number of users of the Apple M1 Mac have been reporting an issue with their device’s storage. Apparently, various devices have been facing alarming degradation of the SSD’s, as per health ...