Author: Mike Moffit

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As technology makes huge strides in producing more stable hardware one thing has become crystal clear, solid state hard drives (SSD) are the way of the future. Apple has only one notebook with a traditional spinning hard drive and it’s likely just a matter of time before they discontinue the MacBook Pro 13in Mid 2012.…

A solid state hard drive (SSD) is what you want in your computer when it comes to speed and reliability. Whether in your laptop or iMac, you WILL notice a speed increase by changing out your old rotating hard drive (HD) for an SSD. But the main difference between doing this job in a laptop…

On many computers, the operating system and user data is stored inside a component called the hard drive. You may remember my contribution to “*Tech Tails #946*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/techtails/tt946/ in which I went into some detail on the inner workings of hard drives. This week, I will cover some different methods of deleting and recovering files from…

_Hello Fellow Technophiles,_ One of our most frequent topics in our newsletters and conversations with customers regards backups. I will say it again here in case you haven’t heard it before: Make sure to back up! Your Mac includes a tool called Time Machine that can be used to automatically back up your machine to…