Condusiv has added a new twist to its Diskeeper line of disk defragmentation software by tackling for the first time the question of how to defragment SAN storage. While technology for defragmenting ...

It never ceases to amaze me just how many cool things PowerShell can do in Windows Server 2012 R2. This is especially true when it comes to storage. PowerShell can be used for a variety of storage ...

The logical disk fail is basically the corruption of data contained on your disk drive. Logical disk failures can take several different forms. The most common reason of logical hard disk failure is ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The term "bit bucket" is used to reference agnostic physical storage, usually on disk drives, ...

Until the widespread adoption of NAND flash, persistent storage was generally based on mechanical devices. We had punched tape and cards (both of which have pretty much disappeared), then tape and ...

When anyone hears the word “fragmentation,” they typically think of a physical disk platter problem where the fragmentation of physical blocks results in disk latency due to the extra head movement ...

My Win 10 system has a pair of 6TB drives set up as a mirrored volume. The downside of this is that when I run out of space I need to replace the pair with an even larger pair of drives. (I could just ...

We recently had a volume free space incident. As a result of that, it occurred to me that I have no practical way to observe the amount of free space on a VM's virtual disk over time. The "Datastore", ...

Who would have thought that storing bits could get so incredibly complicated? Storage has always contained a plethora of protocols, from Fibre Channel to iSCSI to SMB in all its variations, but the ...