Bournemouth — Mar 21st 2017

March's main topic was the story of the disks in out Macs, presented by Tony Still with 11 members, 13 people in all, in attendance. Tony first talked about the evolution of non-volatile (permanent) computer storage from magnetic tapes through to the disks that we know today. He described the current move towards SSDs (flash memory) that are already ubiquitous in iPhones and iPads.

We then explored the many disk formats available and looked at how macOS's Disk Utility can create them on a multitude of different hardware types or even out of fresh air as a disk image. These include Mac-orientated formats but also those needed to use disks with Microsoft's Windows. Finally we looked at Apple's new APFS that is coming to iOS in the 10.3 update and later this year to macOS. A possible update to just hesitate installing for a few days lest it all go very wrong ;-)

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