In Windows 11/10, a Striped Volume is a volume, which uses the free space from more than one physical hard disk to create a bigger volume. Unlike the regular spanned volume, a striped volume writes ...

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 ...

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 ...

To extend a volume, unallocated space must exist, and the unallocated space must be adjacent to the target partition. In addition, the partition style of the target volume must be in NTFS format. The ...

Apple Software Restore lets you clone your Mac even with a Signed System Volume. Here's how to use it to copy your Mac's storage. For a variety of reasons, you may want to make a clone of your Startup ...

I have two hard drives (neither of which are my boot disk, so I have more than that, really). Windows XP Pro SP1, by the way, and the disks are attached to a Promise IDE card.<BR><BR>I recently wanted ...

Q: Some of my disks get really slow when they are nearly 100 percent busy; however, when I see a striped volume or hardware RAID unit at high utilization levels, it still seems to respond quickly. Why ...

Even though today's enterprise file servers offer more and more disk space, users still find ways to fill all the storage you give them. I'm sure you all have storage hogs, who despite constant ...