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 ...

Hmm, my main PC motherboard died so I decided to just recycle some of the hardware and make a new machine. My old machine was Windows XP SP3 and the new machine is Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. I had a data ...

As dynamic disks provide more superiorities than basic, it is a justification that dynamic volumes are widely used. But the disk management under Windows is limited, such as users are not able to ...

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 ...

When creating a virtual machine, you are asked to select a disk type, you can either go for Fixed Disk or Dynamic Disk. What if you went for a Fixed Disk and later on realized that you need a dynamic ...