If you thought measuring and maximising disk performance for a single server was complex, wait until you start to research the topic for VM host servers. This thread was was prompted by a conversation ...

Synology DSM partitions a 2tb drive as 2.38g for the OS 2.00gb for the swap file and an 127mb "unallocated" before user created partitions and 99mb "unallocated" after. I think the space for the OS ...

Am I missing something here... ? It was my understanding that with a RAID setup, it was possible to increase performance (not taking into account reliability) above that of a single disk. Let's say I ...

Suppose you are a technology professional dealing with data-intensive workloads. In that case, storage performance is always on your mind. Even more so in the public cloud, where storage typically has ...

In this podcast, we talk to Rainer Kaese, senior manager for business development for hard disk drives (HDDs) for Toshiba Electronics Europe about the use cases most suited to HDDs. Kaese outlines the ...

Windows ReadyBoost used to be able to speed up your PC, but today, there's very little reason to use it. Why is that?

Performance key for disk-based backup Performance key for disk-based backup By Bill Andrews Disk-based backup systems that support compression and data deduplication can be an attractive alternative ...

Microsoft says Microsoft Edge users will notice improved performance and a smaller disk footprint because the web browser now automatically compresses disk caches. "Beginning with Microsoft Edge 102 ...