Yesterday, I reported on my experiences getting a improperly assembled OWC Titan SE 36 TB SSD installed on my Mac Studio M2 Ultra computer. It now appears to be running fine. I put the skins back on and ran the ATTO disk benchmark.   This is about as fast as a … [Read more...]

Because of the performance of the new Apple silicon, I'm gradually switching much of my work to Macs. I have been using a MacBook Pro M4 Max for the past three months, and, after some initial difficulties which required an OS re-install to fix, it appears to be running like a … [Read more...]

A couple of months ago, I got on of the first Apple M4 Pro Macbooks, with the fastest processor configuration and 128 GB of DRAM. I only write about OOBE’s (out of box experiences) when they are interesting, and this one was utterly Apple-simple. I’m not a newcomer to Apple … [Read more...]

My current working hypothesis about the apparent drive failures is a combination of inadequate cooling from the NAS box combined with SSD thermal throttling not working right. I updated the fan setting to "performance." I ordered 5 low-profile (5mm) M.2 heat sinks. And I told … [Read more...]