Dynamic disks have a lot of advantages over basic disks. They allow you to improve performance with a striped volume across multiple disks and give you the option to extend a volume to include unused ...

Let's assume a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM running on vSphere. The VM is a file server and needs to present around 10TB usable storage. In an ideal world Windows would just see a 10TB pool since there ...

Yesterday, I had a PSS call where the MS guy I spoke to showed me this procedure. I'm posting it here so that others may not need to pay $245 to learn the same thing. **Disclaimer: This ONLY works if ...

The disks and the file system are at the center of Windows 7. It's important that your disks and file system are correctly configured. If not, you system might not function properly, or it may not ...

Windows includes "Disk Management" as a standard feature for managing disks, and since Vista, it has been possible to shrink ...

A Windows hard disk configuration that supports RAID architectures for high performance and fault tolerance, as well as spanning (treating multiple physical disks as one). Striping (RAID 0) splits the ...

Throughout the years, storage requirements and drive sizes have changed, increasing in both cases. In the early 90s, it was nearly unheard of for personal computers to use more than one physical hard ...