Posts tagged hard drive

Volitans Software Announces SMART Utility 2.1

Earlier this month, Volitans software announced SMART Utility 2.1, a significant update to the hard drive diagnostic application. The new features include scanning drives at a specified time interval, ability to ignore a failed test unless its new, and estimated time remaining for tests. Continue reading »

Posted by Lynn Wegley, September 12, 2009

Formating External Hard Drives

In a recent iMacChat list discussion, the question was asked about using an external drive and how it should be formated. Continue reading »

Posted by Lynn Wegley, May 30, 2009

Safari vulnerability, Seagate failure info

SMUG member Terry Bowman (“The Mac Doctor”) has forwarded these two news bursts — one on the recently discovered Safari vulnerability, and the other on Seagate hard drive failures: Continue reading »

Posted by Fred, January 18, 2009