Have you ever needed to format a new hard drive or USB drive, and were given the option of selecting from acronyms like FAT, FAT32, or NTFS? Or did you once try plugging in an external device, only ...

Taking another step into data storage, Microsoft on Friday unveiled software for backing up files on disk-based systems. The product, dubbed System Center Data Protection Manager, is designed to tempt ...

It's the day after Independence Day in the US, and much of our staff is just returning to their preferred work machines. If this was 1997 instead of 2018, that would mean booting up BeOS for some. The ...

Cloud storage is increasingly sophisticated and flexible. The initial appeal of storing data in the cloud was flexibility and cost, and to achieve that, the majority of cloud services based their ...

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart of the Linux kernel and the file system. A computer file system is a ...

There are a number of Linux commands that will display file system types along with the file system names, mount points and such. Some will also display sizes and available disk space. The df command ...

Using Amazon S3 cloud storage is easier due to four file system services and software from SubCloud, Jungle Disk, Elastic Drive and PersistanFS. SubCloud is the latest file system for S3 to emerge.

My Access file is corrupt. Can you restore it for me?” Such common user requests can send administrators on a merry chase that includes digging through archived tapes, inserting the correct cartridge ...

In this post, we will show you how to find out the file system of a drive on a Windows 11/10 PC. There are various file system types with distinct characteristics and features. While some file systems ...

One soon-to-be-released incarnation of object-based storage is Lustre, an open-source file system that’s under development by Cluster File Systems Inc. in Mountain View, Calif. Lustre, which is short ...

Before discussing the difference between “Size” and “Size on disk” in detail, let’s see the basic differences between these terms. Here, I will also show you some calculations that will give the exact ...

Yesterday, alongside the release of the Windows 11 2024 feature update, Microsoft published feature details regarding Windows 11 LTSC 2024 and Windows 11 24H2 for managed PCs. One of the several new ...