Questions tagged [storage]
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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Understand what counts towards icloud storage quota from "Photos" and "Photos" [closed]
TL;DR. My conclusion is that I can stop paying and use the free-tier of 5 GB without data loss.
A story of unnecessary pain and confusion follows. My iCloud™ storage quota that I pay for with Apple is ...
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Can i change my C drive from my SSD to my HDD?
Like the title says I want to move my OS from my solid-state to my hard drive. Are there any drawbacks to this is don't mind the slower boot speed but will it affect anything else and is it possible ...
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Is there digital information inside CPUs? [duplicate]
Do CPUs contain any digital information? Are the instructions and the microcode digital information or physical structures inside the CPU?
If a CPU stores digital information, what type of storage is ...
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I can't uninstall an application, i accidently deleted the uninstall.exe file for it
I'm trying to free up space in my PC and I tried deleting the files for an application rather than clicking uninstall (Yes, i know it was a dumb decision), and now I'm unable to uninstall it, the ...
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Can I use this SSD on this motherboard
Recently I bought a Western Digital SN570 1TB NVMe Solid State Drive. I currently have an ASUS P8B75-M motherboard which support my SATA SSD. However I am not sure if this SSD will go with my current ...
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GNU Linux (ext4 and others) how to find largest duplicate files?
Luckily there are tools to find duplicate files, but unaware of any that output a sortable (by filesize) list.
How to find the top 30 duplicates sorted by filesize?
Have to sort out the msort X-D
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How to extend windows partitions, and how to solve C: partition extension issue [duplicate]
The C: drive needs more storage space on my system drive.
When I take some space from D: drive, the space out is a free space,
the space needed is unallocated space to merge it into C: drive.
how can ...
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Synology NAS: deleted files but space won't go down
I've been facing this problem with my Synology lately: I use the Download Station to download torrents in the folder /volume3/video.
I now have downloaded 43 files and I can list them running the ...
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Continuously writing multiple files: sequential write or random write I/O?
I am trying to choose an SD card to get the best I/O performance for an application which basically does this:
Writes a 4K 30FPS video stream
Writes a VGA video stream
Writes multiple log files of ...
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Best way to handle remote storage without local copy
I have a directory of data which, until now, has been manually rsyncd to a Synology based remote storage. The problem is that I don't have enough space anymore on the local drive, so I'd like to find ...
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Swapping the contents of 2 drives with Windows Explorer without needing to copy-and-delete?
I have local 2 drives, neither of them my Windows boot drive:
A 2TB HDD, drive letter E:. Contains about 300GB of data.
A 1TB SSD, drive letter F:. Contains about 4GB of data.
I want to swap the ...
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Server can't find SAN
One of our "newer" servers (DL380 Gen9 with HBA H241 card) can't access our SAN (P2000 G3).
In vpshere server under configuration the H241 adapter shows the devices but the data storage ...
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better hdd or ssd for long term storage [duplicate]
regarding resistance to data corruption over the years which of the two technologies is currently more reliable? so I'm not interested in reliability in daily use but the ability to maintain data ...
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Optimal Drive Configuration and Cache Setup for TrueNAS running media server and personal files
I'm new to TrueNAS and seeking advice on the optimal setup for my system.
I've built my system with the following specifications:
AMD Ryzen 5 3400G CPU
16GB RAM
3x 3TB WD Red (I can install an ...
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Same UUID's for a group of ZFS drives? Are they ok?
Im trying to figure out why my two new drives which are larger than the other 6 are showing equal checksum errors. In looking into this, I noticed the UUID's are all the same. Is it normal to have ...
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Hidden orphaned data after crash
I've recently set up a new W11 machine with a clean install and a couple of games, and the system had a random BSOD. The strange part though was that after recovering the system did a disk scan and ...
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Can't delete/remove temporary files Windows 10
I have tried to remove "Temporary files" in Settings > Storage
and in Disk Cleanup tool
But after selecting and running the removing/deleting/cleaning process nothing happens, the "...
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how can web/database servers access shared storage at the same time since it isn't possible?
having seen this post
Can a SAN allow concurrent write access to the same file from several servers?
I would like to ask how can web/database servers access shared storage at the same time since it ...
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Trouble understanding difference between disk and drives
So I'm studying for the A+ and we are currently learning about RAID configurations. It says Raid 0 requires 2 disk while Raid requires 2 drives. However wouldn't Raid 0 still require two drives ...
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Sink directory like /dev/null
I want a /dev/null directory, to which a graphical program can write a file, and think that it actually is writing it, like redirecting stdout to /dev/null. I can't write it to /tmp, as I nearly never ...
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Windows - network file transfer consumes storage - lacks housekeeping?
Using Windows 11 to transfer between 2 network locations (both NAS), I'm finding tens of GB of storage persists in being used up on the PC doing the transfer. It's not visible in any temp locations I ...
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Configure external m.2 SSD as removable drive in Windows 11
Installed a 1TB 22x80 M-key NVMe SSD into an external enclosure with a USB-C type connection. On Windows 11, created a GPT partition table and allocated the whole thing with an ExFAT partition, so I ...
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HDD: Process and mitigation of digital decay / data degradation
I am trying to find a long-term method of storing RAW photos. I'd like to keep it as simple as possible, while minimizing data loss (obviously a balance needs to be struck).
I currently archive my ...
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Seagate Central NAS Drive corrupted / Not Mounting Shares
Good Morning,
I have a Seagate Central NAS Drive that has been running fine for years but has suddenly stopped working correctly. It will power up and is available on the network but is showing no ...
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Reading from Optane-SSD without support
I have an M.2 NVMe SSD with an Intel Optane H10 accelerator on it. My old mainboard had Optane support but my new one doesn't. It shows up as 2 drives, one is the 32GB Optane accellerator and the ...
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Why is midnight commander able to copy files so much faster than cp?
I discovered an interesting behavior of mc. When I copy files across devices (at least those that are smaller than free RAM) it seems that the copy is using writeback cache and is nearly instant (on ...
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Remove formatting and partitions on a storage device
Under some circumstances, normal partitioning tools refuse do the requested work;
i.e. removing partitions, and deleting the partition table is troublesome...
How to get past this state? Please ...
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Possible ways to connect two M.2 SSD at a time?
I have Asus PRIME H570-PLUS Motherboard which have two M.2 Slot.
Gen 4.0
Gen 3.0
Crucial P1 SSD is already installed on Gen 3.0 (Win 10 is installed)
Gen 4.0 Slot is empty. (For some reason my ...
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Bad disk write performance & high PSI
I'm currently running into an issue where writing files is causing insanely high pressure on the I/O side:
It goes so far that the system even stalls for a few seconds then writes a bit, stalls again,...
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PC slow when one ssd is at 100% usage despite having two ssds
When I’m downloading something, or doing anything that makes my C drive get to 100% usage my system slows down. I could understand that happening if I had one ssd but I have two, and both have decent ...
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Why Storage Spaces does not see the disk in the pool changed its size?
I created a storage spaces pool on top of a VHDX file. Everything works fine, until I attempt to set new maximum to the VHDX file. In that case Storage Spaces can't see the updated size (and therefore ...
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SATA 3.0 - PC uses lesser speed
I'm running Arch Linux (Kernel: 6.2.13-arch1-1) on my home server and I have a few hard drives connected.
This is an image of my chipset for reference:
https://www.pronotebook.cz/fotky48726/fotos/...
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Formatting new identical HDDs, one taking way longer
I have recently purchased 2 identical HDDs:
Model Family: Seagate BarraCuda 3.5
Device Model: ST4000DM004-2U9104 (labeled as ST4000DMZ04)
Capacity: 4.00 TB [3.64 TiB, 4000787030016 bytes]
I've ...
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Data Errors on Bits or Blocks
I am storing data on HDDs and SSDs and I'm worried about data corruption. Does the data ever have single bit errors, or is it always entire blocks that do not read correctly? I believe there is some ...
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Deleted content from contents folder but application size unchanged
My Google Chrome was taking up 14GB of storage. A bit of research later I found that the problem was likely that Chrome was not deleting old versions of itself. That was exactly the problem. I went ...
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Why Cygwin installtion folder is taking 5 gb in my system? How can I reduce it?
I have Cygwin installed within Windows 10, on a non-OS partition, and might have installed unwanted packages during setup periodically for updates.
I only need it for C/C++ Compiler library, so I just ...
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Can You Help me Understand This M.2 SATA NVMe PCIe SSD Gen 3/4 x34 x64 4x4 Nonsense?
So right off the bat I'll say that I'm a Software Engineer and I've been building computers for decades (up until 5-6 years ago) so I am technology literate, however trying to understand these new ...
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Created new Fedora 37 VM with 1 TB but df shows 15 GB
This morning, I created a virtual machine with 1 TB of storage through VMware, I verified on initial install that the 1TB disk was selected and ran the installation, went through the initial ...
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Why am I only getting a 4MB/s read and write speed from my SSD?
My computer has only one storage drive and that is a 256gb SSD (SATA) which I've made partitions on.
I tested my max drive speed and it is about 350MB/S (read and write). Though, when I copied a stack ...
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Zip file compression failed “output file write failure, your disk could be full” even though I have enough space
I want to compress a 45 gb file with zip, but it says “output file write failure, your disk could be full” after about 20 minutes. I have another 4 terabytes of storage left.
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Can anyone explain the difference between data size shown in an OS compared to an online calculator?
For example, I've just downloaded a file that's 4.67 GiB.
In Windows 10, when I go into the properties, it lists the following:
Showing as 5,023,979,520 bytes
Size on disk is 5,023,981,568 bytes
On ...
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What happens when a file in the D: drive that is larger than the free space in the C: drive is deleted?
So imagine there is 100MB of free space in the C: drive, where the recycle bin is held. If I want to delete a file that is 1GB located in the D: drive, what happens? Is the recycle bin like any other ...
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How can I convert my PC to use Intel RST?
I have an OS that is installed on a small SSD and a large HDD for data. How can I convert my PC to use Intel RST to alleviate the problem where my SSD gets full? I don't have much to buy anything new ...
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What would be the harm of moving the "Downloaded Installations" folder to my second hard drive?
I seem to have an outrageous amount saved to the "C:\Users\Public\Documents\Downloaded Installations" folder on my personal computer that has no obvious use to me. This Super User discussion ...
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Sd card suddenly dead [duplicate]
I had a kingston canvas select plus 128gb sd card in my s9+ (SM-G965F). One day i woke up and i saw some images of apps grey and when i tried to open them "app isn't installed". Also checked ...
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Make apps download to other drives than C
The C: drive on my laptop is almost full. The other 2 drives still have a lot of space left in them. How can I make new apps or files download to other drives without any problems automatically?
I ...
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How can I view the list of files previously deleted by Storage Sense?
How can I view the list of files previously deleted by Storage Sense? I use Windows 10.
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Enlarge Exchange volume
I would like to enlarge an Exchange volume.
Normally i would
shut down the vm, because its an VHD, not an VHDX,
enlarge with Hyper-V Manager,
start up and
extend given partition with diskmgmt.msc at ...
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Transferring Large Folder from Phone to Windows PC
My partner has about 50Gb of photos in a single folder on her Android phone and we need to clear some space. When connected to my Windows 10 machine, the folder takes about 10 mins to list. Then when ...
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How to perform "INNER JOIN" of powershell objects?
I am trying to query for various physical disk health information.
I have two queries that each return separate information about PhysicalDisks.
>Get-PhysicalDisk | Select-Object DeviceId, ...
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