From enterprise flash to experimental archival media, these are ten technologies looking to replace traditional hard drives..

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 ...

As Brien explains, creating a virtual disk in Windows Storage Spaces is akin to creating a map to the underlying raw storage that will be used by the volumes on the virtual disk. In Part 1, I showed ...

Once an organization grows much beyond two or three people, the need to collaborate and share files inevitably runs into the severe limitations of disk swapping. Inevitably, you’ll hear from friends, ...

Making inventories of computer storage, particularly on severs, is complex due to the number of factors involved. There might be multiple physical media devices each of which contains multiple logical ...

The very first disk drive in the world was a vertical rotating drum coated with magnetic material called the IBM 305 RAMAC, which still used vacuum tubes as its compute elements and weighed about a ...

How to reclaim hard drive storage space using Windows 11 tools Your email has been sent Diving deep into the Settings menus, we can find tools that could reclaim gigabytes of lost hard drive storage ...

In times past, choosing the best PC storage option just meant picking the highest-capacity hard drive you could afford. If only life were still so simple! The rise of solid-state drives and hybrid ...

How to optimize storage and hard drives under Windows 10 20H2 Your email has been sent Your computing experience will improve if your Windows 10 PC is optimized. You can now access most storage ...

Weighing in at more than a ton and storing 5MB of data, the IBM 305 RAMAC was the first supercomputer with a hard disk drive (HDD). Introduced by IBM on September 13, 1956, RAMAC stood for “random ...