Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, refers to computer components and recording media that retain digital data. Data storage is one of the core functions and fundamental components of computers.
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Network Drive Via Ethernet Port for Speed?
I have a Macbook with Firewire 400 and USB 2.0, so the only way I can get fast external storage is through the Ethernet port. A really fast firewire 800 drive on ANOTHER computer is actually much ...
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Storage driver difficulties stop me installing Windows 7
Hiya, I'm having a driver problem. When I try to install Windows 7 over Vista it says my storage driver isn't compatible and I should get a better driver before upgrading. The storage driver is called ...
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Expert advice needed,technology for network to disk recording, 1+ Gbps
Is there any other internal storage technology than RAM that can achieve 1Gigabit or more write performance coupled with concurrent reads?
The use case is the following:
Many (100's) threads ...
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Alternatives to Windows Home Server Drive Extender?
As Microsoft is cutting support for Drive Extender in Windows Home Server v2 (Windows Server Codename Vail is the official name), what are the alternatives to Drive Extender on a self-built machine?
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Immediately spin down a HDD on Windows
I have 2 non-system SATA HDDs which are not mapped to a dir and normally kept 'offline' on my Windows 7 OS. Even this way they spin up from time to time, including but not limited to windows update ...
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Raid 5 - magic, vodoo or plain witchcraft?
In a raid 5 setup, you get 4 TB of usable space out of 3 x 2 TB disks. How is that possible?
Simple minded as I am, I would think that you need 4TB to store your things, and use the remaining 2TB for ...
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Best external USB drive with transparent Raid-1 support
I am in the market for a new NAS/backup system, and came across the interesting TonidoPlug
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My last USB external drive (SimpleTech SimpleDrive 1TB) has met its demise, and so I'm trying to figure ...
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How to back up 40G of data?
I tried upgrading several Ubuntu Hardy packages to versions from a later distribution and boy, did I mess up. My computer boots but the display doesn't work and there's no internet connection.
I ...
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Dropbox + truecrypt + svn or something else?
I would like a solution for cloud storage with the following demand:
Secure, (only trust myself and not even the cloud storage provider)
Support for versioning
Compression
Is these combination the ...
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Daisychain external USB drive to WD My Book World Edition (Blue rings)
I recently bought a new My Book Essential 1TB (WDBACW0010HBK-NESN) to daisychain to my older My Book World Edition 500GB (blue rings) with one of the version 01.xx.xx firmwares.
At first when I ...
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Windows 7: disk storage discrepancy
If I go to Computer (aka "My Computer"), Windows tells me that the G drive has 50.7 GB free of 74.5 GB. If I click into the G drive, highlight all the folders in there, click right and choose ...
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How information is stored?
In the old times 8 bit information and 8 bit computers got along well
There was an ASCII of 8 bits so a single byte is a single char
and a single and whole position in memory/disk
then came 16 bit, ...
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How can I use my computer as a USB storage device? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to connect two Computers with USB?
So my TV supports USB and not Ethernet. I don't want to swap USB flash drives everyday. I'd like to plug my always-on Linux ...
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FreeBSD Partition Size
I have the following df -h output:
/dev/mfid0s1d 9.7G 8.9G 28K 100% /var
However, when I try to du -hs /var, I got this result:
#du -hs /var
3.3G /var
My question is, where the ...
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Looking for a external drive that can be connected both with Gigabit ethernet and with eSATA
I need to transfer the contents of a folder that currently exists on a SAN. There are about 650,000 files that take up 800 Gigabytes.
For the retrieval, I want to attach it to the server using ...
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How do I activate software raid-1 in Windows?
I use Windows Vista Ultimate, and have four disks of 500GB. Windows is already installed on one disk, the systemdisk.
Now I would like to mirror the system disk using Windows built-in software raid. ...
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Stored passwords in company login
I stored my passwords in firefox browser in the computer of a company I was doing internship with. I had my login for that computer, so no one could access it. I want to ask that as now I am gone, ...
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NAS using SATA and ATA disks
I have about 10 hard drives some SATA 2 and some ATA. I would like to build a NAS box where I can use all these disks and build a hugh NAS disk. All disks together sums about 3 TB. I know that ...
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Western Digital 1TB SATAII 64MB freezes or slows down my PC
My new PC frequently freezes every few seconds, or goes slow. Performance is under the typical speed. I'm sure this is not related to an infection after writing on Tom's Hardware Italy. Some kind ...
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Is it Bad to fill up my whole C drive (Windows installed drive)
Is it bad to fill up my Windows installed Drive i.e. C:\ . If yes then Why , How much space should I fill , will adding more and more files in the C drive affect my hardware performance. How much ...
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What is a USB Wi-Fi dongle device that can emulate virtual mass storage device for a home video player?
What is a USB Wi-Fi dongle device that can emulate a virtual mass storage device for home video player, but in fact it shows the files from a network-shared enter code here folder?
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Re-Initialize RAID-0 in software after card failure
I'm working on a Friend's WD MyBook "1TB" HDD that is not mounting. When I got in to it, I discovered that it is really 2 500GB HDD's set up as RAID-0. It appears that the drives themselves are ...
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Who decides the RAID levels and architecture?
Is there some governing body that comes up with the specifications for different RAID levels?
If not, how are they decided?
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What process manages disk storage in Windows?
Which Windows process is responsible for determining the low level space management and allocation?
For example, that the data goes to this block, this segment etc.
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Memory addresses on disk
If i had 160 GB of hard drive on a 32 bit OS what is the largest possible memory address? and if a 32 bit pointer can map upto 4 GB of memory how is it possible to map an address above 4 GB?
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External Data Source for read-intensive applications
I have a 500gb external harddrive which I use to play games and watch movies. However, I've noticed that every few minutes, my screen freezes up for like 10 seconds and the external goes crazy.
I ...
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How to automatically eject external drive after Time Machine runs
I have a MacBook Pro which I regularly dock to an external monitor.
I have my mouse, keyboard, and iPhone dock, and an external hard drive connected via a USB hub so that I only have to make one USB ...
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Good tape drive for home user? [closed]
My home storage consumption has grown considerably over the past few years due to use of a higher resolution camera, and most recently a highdef camcorder.
I've been using a ReadyNas Duo with 1 TB ...
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Can I map a drive to a NAS (linux based) from my Windows 7 PC
I want to buy an NAS to use as backup and to store pictures. I want to be able to create disk images, through Acronis, and store them there as well. Can I map a drive to the NAS in Windows 7 and ...
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Is there a way I can create ECC data for hard disk files?
I've got about 500 GB of data that I'd like to archive onto a hard disk. However, I've found disks to occasionally flip a bit or two over that 500 GB of data over a span of about 5 years or so. Large ...
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How can I manage multiple removable hard drives?
I have a desktop PC which I use to play videos and movies on my TV, as well as play music. Storage is an issue so I have the following Icy Dock hard drive cage installed which allows me to swap in ...
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How do defragmenting programs work?
a) What algorithm would a typical defragmenting program use to get rid of the fragmentation?
b) In Defraggler, I have a quick defrag option and a defrag option. Assuming defrag would do a normal ...
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DD-WRT/openwrt - speed up network sharing function
Can I squeeze more speed out of my router (when it comes to USB attached storage device on it) with open/DD wrt? (Sorry I don't really know such firmwares.)
(Guess it works with ntfs-3g? I don't ...
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What is the advantage of iSCSI over SMB?
At my house I'm running a Hyper-V server with a Windows Server 2008 R2 VM acting as a file server. Files are shared across my network using SMB. (Also, the machine is using a PERC 6/i RAID card but ...
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Blu-ray BD-R: Would you physically store it in a CaseLogic Wallet pocket?
I keep several backup copies of my material and files. For my DVDs, one set of copies is kept in a CaseLogic wallet folder pack, so that I can easily move this around when visiting friends, family or ...
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I need to clear out my Itunes library
My itunes library is being a space hog and I need to transfer unused files to an external hard-drive and/or compress them. Can someone tell me if:
a. that's possible
b. if itunes will play media on ...
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how do I get my mac to recognize a mass storage device
I can't get my mac to recognize an external mass storage device
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How can I store empty 100 CDs?
I have bought 1000 blank CDs without spindle. Are those empty spindles to store CDs available on the market?
I need to store 3000 CDs after writing and I don't know how to do it.
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where to find temporary internet files in chrome [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Chrome: where is the location to save browse temporary files
where it is being stored? Does it store the flv files when I stream videos online?
I go here but all I see ...
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Find out where Data is stored in Windows Vista [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What’s using up my disk space?
Best program to visualize file system usage on Windows?
I've recently hit the cap on my 450gig HD and I can't seem to figure out ...
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RAID clarification
I thought I understood RAID, but I'm looking at images from Wikipedia, and it doesn't seem like I do. For example, take this image:
What does the 'parity' do? For example, what happens if Disk 2 ...
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4K sectors transition: Why are hard drives moving to 4096 byte sectors, vs. 512 byte sectors?
I've noticed that some Western Digital hard drives are now sporting 4K sectors, that is, the sectors are larger: 4096 bytes vs. the long-standing standard of 512 bytes. So:
What's the big deal with ...
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Saving music wisely: Why save 'Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody.mp3' millions of times? [closed]
As far as I'm concerned, Queen's song 'bohemian rhapsody' is one of the most popular songs all time. But for the purpose of this message you may replace this with another track.
At the same time I ...
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How do I get the Windows 7 installer onto a USB drive? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
How to install Windows 7 RC from a USB disk?
Create pendrive installer for Windows 7
I'm having trouble installing Windows 7 onto my old laptop. The problem appears ...
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Run script when a specific disk/memory card is mounted under OSX
How do I run a script when a drive is mounted under OSX?
My usecase is that I would like to automatically copy images from my USB memory/harddrive when it is inserted in my USB card reader, and when ...
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Software to store frequently used text in PC
I am a looking for a free software that can run on the task bar (near the system time) where I can store frequently used text like my full street address, paths of specific deep folders & files in ...
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What are typical drive lifetimes?
Can anyone tell me about the lifetime of drives (floppy, hard disk, CD, DVD, flash...)?
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Messed up USB stick doesn't show in blkid
I was playing around with a USB stick (booting archlinux with qemu off of it and trying to perform an installation on the same stick at the same time -- brave, I know, but I was just messing around).
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Can I mount a volume at /Users on OS X?
I'm considering purchasing a SSD for my Macbook Pro. Unfortunately, I can't afford a large one, so I'm thinking of moving the current hard drive to the optical bay. On a Linux system, I would mount ...
