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OWC and DIGLLOYD offer ultra-high-performance Photo Workstations

Thursday, April 1st, 2010 | Author: OWC NewsFeed

DIGLLOYD MacPerformanceGuide.com, a leading resource on Mac configuration and performance optimization, and hardware vendor Other World Computing are pleased to announce a new computer upgrade service, the MPG Photo Workstation™.

This service, provided through MacPerformanceGuide.com, reconfigures a stock Mac Pro and delivers a ready-to-use workstation with enhanced performance and reliability features, with high-quality upgrades from Other World Computing. Customers can reconfigure an existing computer they already have, or arrange for a new one to be upgraded (the Apple Mac Pro is the only system supported initially, others to follow). The MPG Photo Workstation targets Photoshop and Lightroom users, professional photographers, graphic designers, and audio/video producers, but is suitable for anyone with high performance and reliability requirements.

Not only are these systems specified for top performance, but, in perhaps an industry first, each system ships only after a rigorous 8-hour burn-in test to insure optimum performance  before the customer gets the equipment.

“The MPG Photo Workstation concept embodies the recommendations for enhanced productivity that we’ve been making for years at Mac Performance Guide, but instead of having to figure out how to assemble and configure one of these Macs on your own, set up RAID, etc., now OWC’s turnkey service just gets the job done,” explains MacPerformanceGuide author and researcher Lloyd Chambers. “My consulting clients have been asking for this service for a long time, and I’m delighted to see OWC make this cost-effective service available!” Article Continues…

RAID for the rest of us. The adventures of Little Johnny.

Monday, September 21st, 2009 | Author: OWC Michael

JohnnyBoardBreaking it down to its simplest forms, there are two main reasons to add a RAID setup to your computer system. Performance and Redundancy.

Let’s break these down individually:

Little Johnny was acting up in class and his teacher made him sit in the hallway while all the other kids went to recess. If he could finish writing “I will not put frogs in the teacher’s desk ever again” 100 times on paper before the rest of his classmates came back to class, little Johnny would be able to join them in the playground. Article Continues…

Category: Tech Tips

Testing the World’s First 7200RPM 2.0TB External “Quad Interface” Storage Solution

Friday, September 18th, 2009 | Author: OWC Michael

Hitachi_2TB_HardDisk_Deskstar_7K2000We just received stock of Hitachi’s new 2.0TB 7200RPM DeskStar 7K2000 Serial ATA Hard Drive. We always test and qualify new products of this nature before releasing them for sale and man, these drives are fast! Rock Solid, High Performance, Quiet too. The only 7200RPM 2.0TB single drive model currently available and by far, the fastest 2.0TB Serial ATA (SATA) drive available today.

But don’t just take our word on it, see for yourself:

We benchmark all of our hard drive solutions using the QuickBench TM 4.0 Extended Test.  This test measures the drive’s ability to sustain large amounts of data (measuring between 20MB and 100MB) transferred to and from your computer.  For the purposes of this run, we used our OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro Quad Interface Storage Kit and compared three of the 2.0TB hard drive mechanisms currently in our lineup: Article Continues…