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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Windirstat reports Websense using 80GB, but FileExplorer says Websense using 480MB [closed]
What does it mean when c:\program files\Websense is reported by Windows File Explorer to use 480MB but WinDirStat reports the same directory as using 80GB?
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PROXMOX Ubuntu VM Showing 0% Available Space
New to Ubuntu and Proxmox and not sure where my issue resides.
The volume mounted as root is being reported as having 0% available. I only set up this VM 2 weeks ago and have not installed anything ...
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Does encrypting full drive with BitLocker secure-wipe the drive?
Say I have a storage device that I want to use with my Windows 10 machine. I have some sensitive data on the drive and I would like to wipe the drive before using it. Normally I just use dd to fill ...
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REALLOCATED SECTOR COUNT 4948. Request for advice
I felt need of testing because some of my stored games were failing to boot properly. Quick test from HD Tune Pro app displayed 3 red blocks in one of the test runs and a full test always reports 3 ...
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Moving from Netgear ReadyNAS RN104 to a different manufacturer
my Netgear ReadyNAS RN104 has died, problem with the power and/or power supply, so I want to move the 4 drives set up in RAID 5 to another NAS. I want to move to a different manufacturer so what is ...
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trying to mirror one storage drive of size 2n to two storage drives of 1n each
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I have two hard disk drives of 2tb each. Currently I am mirroring one to the other. The disks however are almost full.
I am now planning to get a 4tb hard drive and use that as the original ...
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Disk 0 doesn't show when using PowerShell Get-Disk
On one machine I'm using, the PowerShell cmdlet Get-Disk doesn't show Disk 0. But using other commands it will...
Get-Disk | Select Number, FriendlyName, HealthStatus, Size
Number FriendlyName ...
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Is M.2 NVMe SSD supported by Lenovo Thinkpad L490
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad L490 (2019) running i5 - 8th gen. It only has a B key slot (notch on the left with 5 pins to the left). I am looking to buy an SSD preferably M.2 NVMe but not sure if it’s ...
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Factory Resetting Windows 11 Computer and Then Switching Drives
I built my computer, but ever since I added two drives, it has been acting up. I'd like to remove my old, 256GB drive (the current C) drive, and just switch my current D drive to the C drive to use as ...
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Can this M.2 SSD suddenly fail with moved/damaged capacitor?
Few days ago I built a new PC and of course I had to do something wrong. In this case I rotated the in-board M.2 plastic lock in the opposite direction and was wondering why it doesn't sit well.
After ...
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NVMe VPD access failed
I get nvme 0000:01:00.0: VPD access failed. This is likely a firmware bug on this device. Contact the card vendor for a firmware update in my kernel log sometimes. However SMART data and NVMe self-...
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Linux - What causes processes to block aka "disk sleep" on synchronous writes?
...as in, for example using dd to dump an ISO image to a thumb drive, or such. At the end of the transfer, the process doing the (afaik synchronous) write is left in 'disk sleep' status for several ...
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Adding extra hard disk to an Ubuntu machine
I have installed a hard disk to my ubuntu machine
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 1634316 1512 1632804 1% /run
/dev/sdb3 959783984 ...
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Is there storage limit to Asus Tuf laptops?
I have the Asus Tuf Gaming f15(2023). Is there any storage limit? Can I install 2TB SSD and 64GB RAM?
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Is there a difference between a primary drive or a logical one when it's just for storage
Should I make an external storage drive logical or leave it as primary or does it matter? Also, if I leave it as primary, should I make it active?
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The hard drive on my device is 32gigs but Linux Mint installer says there is only 15.7gigs and that it requires 16.1gigs, what do I do?
The hard drive on my device is 32gigs but Mint Linux installer says there is only 15.7gigs and that it requires 16.1gigs, what do I do?
I have cleared all the partitions and it hasn't changed, I don't ...
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Only two of three Kingston SSDs are detected in official Kingston SSD Manager tool
So I have the following three SSDs
SA400S37/480G
SA400S37/120G
SUV400S37/120G
First of two are detected and visible in Kingston SSD Manger tool but the last one is not?
What does it mean? Can it be ...
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Which Chrome directories can be safely removed to clean up the storage?
Which Chrome directories can be safely removed to clean up the storage?
In particular, what do shared_proto_db and File System do?
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Why is my SSD estimated remaining life dropping faster than expected?
I've used my Hynix BC501 SSD drive for about 4 years with 16.5TB total written data.
Its estimated life is now 41%, yet the expected life of my old PC's HDD, which I used for more than 10 years, is ...
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Graphics connections vs USB
Why aren't graphics connections such as HDMI used for peripheral devices such as storage drives - in addition to graphics?
It seems these connections are capable of moving data very fast compared to ...
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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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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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