A disk refers to the physical storage medium itself, such as the magnetic platter in a hard disk drive (HDD) or the flash memory in a solid-state drive (SSD). It is the actual physical material that ...

Disk volumes may be identified by either their assigned drive letter or volume name. By default, disk volumes installed on your computer are named Local Disk in the Windows 7 operating system. If you ...

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Before discussing the difference between “Size” and “Size on disk” in detail, let’s see the basic differences between these terms. Here, I will also show you some calculations that will give the exact ...

I had a pair of 4TB drives in a RAID1 running off an onboard Intel Rapid Storage controller (fake RAID), but performance was horrible - like 1/2 to 3/4 of rated drive speed. I decided begrudgingly to ...

While the days of expensive storage are (thankfully) long gone, the task of managing storage hasn't disappeared along with the high costs. And, somehow, administrators always seem to be just a ...

Selecting the right NTFS cluster size is key to balancing storage scalability, efficiency and performance when expanding a Windows volume. In my previous article, I explained that I recently found ...