Tag: storage
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HexOS: does a friendlier TrueNAS make the right decisions for you?
A practical review of HexOS on two home servers, focused on installation time, default choices, memory overhead compared with plain TrueNAS, behaviour of mixed-capacity pools during scrub and resilver, cloud dependence and Buddy Backups.
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The Best Portable and Desktop SSDs for Mac and iPad
A practical guide to external SSDs for Mac and iPad: Thunderbolt versus USB, the speeds that actually matter, capacities for Time Machine versus media, and brands worth trusting.
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Wokyis i5: a retro Mac case that is really a laptop dock with a 10 Gbps ceiling
A practical review of the Wokyis i5 10Gbps retro docking station for laptops, covering the USB-C host link, 65 W power delivery, the NVMe enclosure speed limit, the 5 inch display, mechanical shortcut keys, port count, macOS behaviour and value.
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iCloud Plus Tiers vs External SSDs: How to Buy the Right Storage
How to choose between iCloud Plus tiers and an external SSD: what each is really for, the 50GB to 12TB ladder, the true multi-year cost, and when you need both.
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How to Free Up Storage on a Full iPhone Without Deleting Your Photos
How to free up iPhone storage without deleting photos - optimise your library, offload bloated apps, clear Messages attachments, and find the real space hogs.
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Where Did My Storage Go? How to Free Up Space on a Mac
How to free up space on a Mac - read the Storage bar, find the real culprits, clear caches and old backups safely, tame Photos, and decode System Data.
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The Backup Strategy for People With 500GB of AI Models
Storage and backup strategy for local AI model hoarders: deduplicating Ollama, LM Studio, and Hugging Face caches, Time Machine exclusions for model blobs, external SSD symlinking, and what actually deserves a backup.
