Disk Utility provides features for creating disk images, RAID, and repairing disks. In the second part of our deep dive, we'll look at those options.Use Disk Utility to keep your Mac drives in line. In part 1 of this series, we looked at the basics of Apple's Disk Utility: what are devices and volumes, how to create and use volumes, and how files and folders are stored on volumes. Read more...

Disk Utility provides features for creating disk images, RAID, and repairing disks. In the second part of our deep dive, we'll look at those options.Use Disk Utility to keep your Mac drives in line. In part 1 of this series, we looked at the basics of Apple's Disk Utility: what are devices and volumes, how to create and use volumes, and how files and folders are stored on volumes. Read more...

Disk Utility ships with macOS and has been part of the operating system since its first release. Here's how to use it.Disk Utility provides various tasks such as formatting storage devices, mounting and unmounting volumes, creating disk images, and copying drives. First, we'll define some terminology, then dive into what you can do with Disk Utility.Understanding devices and volumes Read more...

Disk Utility ships with macOS and has been part of the operating system since its first release. Here's how to use it.Disk Utility provides various tasks such as formatting storage devices, mounting and unmounting volumes, creating disk images, and copying drives. First, we'll define some terminology, then dive into what you can do with Disk Utility.Understanding devices and volumes Read more...

Macworld It’s never been easy to upgrade the storage in Macs, so it’s always a good idea to buy an external drive to provide extra storage for all your work files, photos, videos, and games. And, of course, you should always have an external drive available for making Time Machine backups in case anything ever goes wrong. Modern solid-state drives (SSD) are the best option as they’re really fast, reliable, and compact. However, SSDs are still relatively expensive, with 1TB drives costing around $100/£150, whereas that same amount of money can get you a 4TB basic desktop hard drive with a USB interface (drives with high-speed Thunderbolt ports tend to be more expensive) Hard drives are slower than SSDs, but…

Macworld Editor’s note: 25 years ago today, Apple revealed the iMac. To commemorate the anniversary, we are reposting this article that originally appeared on the iMac’s tenth anniversary in 2008. The iMac made an instant impression when Apple first unveiled it in May 1998. But it didn’t start to really shake things up until it began to ship, which happened on August 15, 1998. Arguably the most influential desktop computer of the last decade, the original iMac’s specifications seem quaint by today’s standards. For $1,299, you came home with a 233MHz PowerPC G3 processor, 32MB of RAM, a 4GB hard drive, a 15-inch built-in monitor, and stereo speakers, all in an amazingly stylish case. The Bondi Blue wonder heralded the…