Hedge’s OffShoot now works with OWC Innergize, so you can health check and sanitize your OWC cards. OWC’s maintenance technology is called Innergize, and it’s available across a wide range of media, card readers, docks, and storage devices. It’s now built into OffShoot, on both macOS and Windows.
You can’t just maintenance any card; it needs to be able to talk to a card’s controller, and only the manufacturer knows how to do this. As compatible OWC cards and Offshoot can talk to each other, this is now possible.
To get the most cycles out of your media, your camera media needs regular maintenance. Despite its (often) sturdy physical format, under the hood, there’s a lot of movement going on when you record to a camera card. All movement results in wear, even if it’s electrons, and camera cards are no exception. If you don’t take care of your cards, it’ll cost you speed and eventually lifespan. Media has become much faster and reliable, but NAND flash wears with use. The controllers inside your media cards detect that wear and actively work around it, but over time, inefficiencies accumulate.
Sanitize returns the NAND to a fresh state. It instructs your card’s controller to reset the media to a near factory-new condition by clearing mapping tables and blocks, so future writes are laid down cleanly, restoring maximum sustained write speed and thus improving reliability.
