Category: 864: Just a TRIM, Real Time HD I/O, Fix A Sluggish Home Button

Nothing says speed like Apple’s Flash Storage drives! If you don’t have a Mac and want to capitalize on the lightning fast speeds that solid state drives have to offer, then Apple’s line of Retina MacBooks are the perfect choice for you! Here at Small Dog we like to give you the best deals around,…

Have you been inspired to start reaping the benefits of solid state drives after reading about them in Glenn’s article? SSD’s truly are the wave of the future and if you’d like to get with the times, we suggest trying out LaCie’s Rugged portable SSD. The Rugged SSD drives offer incredibly fast read/write speeds and…

??This article was written by Carl Grasso, a former technician and originally debuted in “*Tech Tails issue #819.*”:http://blog.smalldog.com/techtails/tt819?? Do you have an older iPod or iPhone that has a sluggish Home button? Does it take a couple taps to get it to register? It may just need to be recalibrated. Before today, I didn’t even…

Do you want to see the input and output of your hard drive in real time? Do you want to see what applications are reading from and writing to your drive and vice versa? Dynamic Tracing, or DTrace, is a suite of scripts and frameworks created by Sun Microsystems for troubleshooting. DTrace is supported on…

Solid state drives (SSDs) are advertised as better than standard hard drives, and in most cases that’s true. There are no moving read/write heads or spinning platters, so there’s no time wasted while the drive rotates around to grab the next data fragment. Plus, the lack of moving parts means better battery life on portable…

Hello all, I was listening to our local public radio station this morning and the weather forecaster said we were in for a bunch of different stuff in the next few days and to remember that April just “can’t be trusted.” I have no idea why, but I enjoyed that observation a lot. A little…