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 ...

Effectively using network storage technologies is a crucial part of any data storage management strategy. Simply relying on hard drives, JBODs or other types of local storage just isn't enough to ...

Over the last few years, much of the enterprise storage market has focused on flash technology, but the hard disk drive (HDD) format has plenty of life in it yet. It is true that flash storage offers ...

Western Digital’s Innovation Day showed their plans to introduce 100+TB HAMR HDDs with 2X or higher performance by 2029 and ...

USB Disk Storage Format Tool utility allows you to quickly and thoroughly format virtually any USB flash drive with your choice of FAT, FAT32, exFAT, or NTFS partition types. Quickly and thoroughly ...

Optical storage can last a century, give faster access to data, and is backward compatible with earlier optical technology, yet disk drives and tape rule in long-term storage. Optical media is the ...

special report Storage hardware can't keep indefinitely storing more bits in the same amount of space. When will we run out of disk space, and what will we do when it happens? In a feature a couple ...

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 ...

When creating a virtual machine, you are asked to select a disk type, you can either go for Fixed Disk or Dynamic Disk. What if you went for a Fixed Disk and later on realized that you need a dynamic ...