In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

A disk refers to the physical storage medium itself, such as the magnetic platter in a hard disk drive (HDD) or the flash memory in a solid-state drive (SSD). It is the actual physical material that ...

If you try to format a hard drive on your Windows 11/10 system and you receive an error that says Windows cannot format this drive, then this post will help you with ...

On rare occasions, you may find that the Drive letter is missing from File Explorer following the installation of an Update. If you have experienced this issue on your Windows 11/10 PC, here’s a way ...

At the 2021 SNIA Storage Developers Conference (SDC) there were presentations on many different storage technologies, interfaces, system architectures, computational storage and other topics. This ...

Hard Disk Sentinel (HDSentinel) is a multi-OS SSD and HDD monitoring and analysis software. Its goal is to find, test, diagnose and repair hard disk drive problems, report and display SSD and HDD ...

If you’ve ever wished that you could emulate the performance of a solid-state drive without installing a new piece of hardware, consider creating a new virtual hard drive on your PC that runs purely ...

The data is in for the C2Q 2023 HDD shipments from the August 2023 Digital Storage Technology Newsletter. Total HDD shipments in C2Q 2023 were down 6.8% compared with C1Q 2023 (31.2M versus 33.5M).