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 ...

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One of the first big challenges neophyte sysadmins and data hoarding enthusiasts face is how to store more than a single disk worth of data. The short—and traditional—answer here is RAID (a Redundant ...

Datrium, a startup whose technology turns industry-standard servers into high-performance hybrid flash array solutions, has finally started shipping its first model that brings the cost of flash ...

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 ...

‘Up until now, storage systems have been provided for individual use cases, and competitors have generally had four, five, six, or even more unique systems, different software environments, different ...

I think I want a 4 bay box because I tend to use "hand me down" HDDs for the video storage, pulled from the Veeam boxes after I upgrade those. It's not mission-critical footage; just monitoring for ...

In my experience, Windows Storage Spaces tends to be reliable and typically behaves in a predictable manner. On a couple of occasions, however, I have encountered problems related to detached virtual ...

Sometimes it seems like modern computing is a constant battle to maintain enough free disk space for the data you need to stay productive. Your adversaries are apps ...

The Storage Optimizer in Windows 11/10 now takes care of maintenance activities like compacting data and complying with file system allocation to enable capacity reclamation on thinly provisioned ...