How to Ensure Your Mac is Working Properly

The Mac is a wonderful tool for both work and entertainment, but how do you know that your Mac is performing at its optimum? Do you know if your hard drive is about to fail? Fortunately, you can take a few simple measures to find out how your Mac is performing, and ensure that the hardware is working properly. Continue reading to learn more.

Checking the Hard Drive

Hard drives, and even SSDs, are susceptible to failure. You never know when a drive will fail, but when it does, you’ll definitely feel the effects of it. You should always have a good backup of your Mac’s drive by using either Time Machine or Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the drive. Having a good backup will ensure that when your drive does fail, you’ll be back up and running in no time.

The majority of drives include a feature called S.M.A.R.T. (or Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology). By checking on the S.M.A.R.T. status of the drive, you will be alerted to potential upcoming drive failures.

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How to Properly Secure Your Mac and iOS Devices

Sometimes, securing your Mac with a password is not enough to keep it from getting compromised. There are a multitude of things you can do to keeep your Mac safe from prying eyes. Read on and we'll show you how to protect both your iOS devices and your Mac.

Secure Your Devices DigitallyTurning on Account Password Protection on your Mac

On the Mac, you can enable a password for your user account by opening Apple menu > System Preferences > Users & Groups, and selecting your name from the list of users.

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