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Does Apple still support multipathing as indicated in this Technical Note TN2173: Multipathing with FibreChannel on Mac OS X on the Apple website, in the current versions of Apple macOS and if not, when (what version of Apple Mac OS X or macOS) was it removed or discontinued? Was it only...

As with most things Mac - I've had the money issue where I am currently unable to update my Macbook Pro - but also don't have enough free space currently to update the OS. Because of this issue - I have had a conflict between DropBox - whom I use, and of course pay for, storage to mitigate...

About a year ago, I spent a lot of $$ with a service to recover data from a dead-ish external USB drive. I generally buy Seagate or WD and want to retire them after 2 years or so. Too short? Too long? I’m considering rolling my own, so this is to solicit recommendations for bare drives...

I have a Fantom Green Drive 500GB and multiple computers with data I want to back-up. Is there a process that will allow me to configure the external drive to store each computers information separately?

Dear my friends : I added to my mac pro Atto PCI-Express card "Fiber channel 2 port " and then I made the AXUS YB-12SAEF4 as RAID 5 then connect it with MAC ..the problem some times the OS saw the HDD and sometimes not , until I change the Fiber Channel or the LUN I don't know what happen...

hi everyone ! computer ''newb'' here & have decided to put my music/photos/video onto HDD. i have 10.000 albums ( 35 years of collecting CD's & LP's, plus 400 DVD's ..) & started fiddling around with some W.D. My Book USB drives to ''test the waters'' : so far i have 2 X 1TB drives plus 1 x...

Hopefully someone can help me out with this. I bought a Cavalry CAND3001T0 1TB Network Storage with RAID about three weeks ago. The idea was to set up a network drive where multiple computers could access the same files from one central repository (specifically the iTunes library and our...

I have too many media files for my local hard drive and would like to have a storage device that I can access primarily from my macbookpro wirelessly. I use bootcamp with windows xp so it would be nice if I could share this storage with my windows virtual computer and other computers I have in...

with 2, 4 and more GB memory cards around i was wondering which is the fastest, reliable and cost effective format. Compact Flash I/II MicroDrive Memory Stick /Pro/Duo SD Edit: Planning to use it as startup/VM disk on notebooks. Thanks.

I have a MacBook Pro and i'm running low on disk space... I've been looking at: Western Digital NetCenter Maxtor Shared Storage II Buffalo Linkstation Pro Does anyone have any experiences with the above (or others) and a Mac? For the vast majority of the time i'm going to be...

Hey all, I am in desparate need of help. I just purchased an external storage device (the Photon 2.5-80GB by acomdata). I can't remember exactly what I was doing at the time but all of a sudden, I had umpteen amount of icons of my external on my desktop. when i went to select them all and drag...

Hi all, Does anyone have any experience with Western Digital 250GB storage drives? I need some extra storage, but it doesn't come cheap and I've already been stung with compatibility issues on a camcorder so would appreciate any positive feedback on 250GB storage devices. I'm not planning to...

Hi there, I thought that if I added a Sonnet ATA 133 Card to a G4 500 Mhz desktop machine, I would be able to use hard drives above 128Gb in size.. But it seems that I was only able to partition the first 128Gb of this drive I installed a system onto. Is there something else I need to do.. ...

My ibook g4 started running slow a few weeks back(that rainbow colored spiny disk thing would come up).I eventually tried restarting it when it seemed to fully freeze.once it restarted the computer wouldn't fully start up.it would just freezes on the start up screen.so i tried running the apple...

hi i have a huge problem. my powerbook (1.5 1gb 15" using OS X 10.4.2) freezes the usb after some time. happens when i copy some data to and from my hard drive (attached via usb). at first i thought the problem was my s-ata external hdd but i had the same problems copying data from a sd-card in...

Now that I have upgraded to 10.4.2 I am having trouble buring CD's. Before, I used to put a blank disc into the drive and it would mount on the desktop. I could then drag files onto the disc, right click and burn. This feature no longer seems to be available??? Is there any way to...

Hi, I'm planning to purchase a Ethernet disk (LaCie Ethernet disk, Synology or other) and install it on my existing network (netgear router and Airport express) in order to store and share my music and photo libraries. I would like to know whether It would be possible to stream the music...

I am trying to connect both a file storage device (Buffalo Linkstation) and a cable modem through an Ethernet switch (Netgear FS308). Buffalo tech support tells me to connect the Linkstation directly to the computer (which disables the cable modem), change the IP address of the computer (which I...

Let me first say, I know very little about MAC and use a pc. A friend of mine (who owns a MAC) kept her photos on her computer in the iphoto program. She had some kind of trouble with the MAC and a friend of hers reinstalled the OS. My question is.. are the pictures gone? They did a search for...

A few days ago my system crashed; I couldn't repair it with Disk Utility or TechTool so I ended up erasing and reinstalling the OS. Then I booted from the Apple Hardware Test disk and ran the tests. The short version said all was well, but the longer version gave me this error: 2STF/8/3...