Reading Time: < 1 minute Solid State Drive upgrade options for the MacBook Pro with Retina Display have finally come down in price enough to make them a reasonably good value. Here’s a performance comparison between the stock Apple drive and the OWC Aura Pro 6G: According to Blackmagic, the OWC Aura Pro 6G 480GB meets the advertised specification, but […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The first 1GB USB drive I bought was a Lexar Jumpdrive. This one is a bit smaller and faster. Too bad it doesn’t have a yellow LED to mimic a real firefly, or at least a green one like the “green-eyed” clicking fireflies — actually bioluminescent click beetles — that were ubiquitous in South Texas.
Reading Time: < 1 minute For a while, I’ve posted stats and quick reviews of USB flash drives. NirSoft has shown the way with a a great addition to a freeware utility called USBDeview. The newer versions of the program include the ability to not just speed test your drive, but upload the results, along with vendor and product ID’s, […]