There are two types of computer hard disks: Basic Disks and Dynamic disks. Basic disks are the commonly used storage media with Windows. They contain partitions like Primary partitions and Logical ...

How to use Windows 10’s Storage tool to find out the size of the hibernation file–and much more Your email has been sent You might be surprised at the features hidden in the Storage tool. See how you ...

A couple of months ago, I encountered an interesting situation with regard to the disks in one of my servers. At the time, I had two identical Hyper-V servers, each of which were equipped with five ...

A more resilient Storage Spaces in the forthcoming Windows Server 2016 gives software-defined storage a major boost, promising to usher in more intelligent converged infrastructure. Software versus ...

Windows Home Server was never a particularly popular product, but it did bring some interesting features to the table for the few who used it and became fans. One of these features was called Drive ...

Any s torage consolidation effort must involve a serious consideration of disk subsystems and the specific disk types that those systems will contain. As an example, there may be hundreds (even ...

I have some PCIe SSD cards installed in a WS 2106 server, but once I make them dynamic disks (prior to putting them in RAID 1), they can no longer perform a TRIM operations (i.e Optimize, or defrag L.