ZFS compression is the free storage upgrade my NAS needed, but only for some files.

When you create a virtual disk on top of a Windows storage pool, Windows allows you to incorporate some fault tolerance into that virtual disk. Assuming that a sufficient number of physical disks ...

Microsoft delivered a completely new way of looking at our disks and storage in Windows Server 2012, with the biggest change in how storage is laid out and provisioned. Here's how to create and manage ...

A couple of months ago, I encountered an interesting situation with regard to the disks in one of my servers. At the time, I had two identical Hyper-V servers, each of which were equipped with five ...

Google has changed the way it provides cloud storage by combining the capacity it provides users for multiple applications into a single pool. MSPs cheered the move, saying that cloud storage news ...

Anyone who deals with huge amount of critical data takes steps to ensure redundancy and backup of that data. Big companies do it as a standard practice. But small and medium businesses, SOHO (small ...

Windows Home Server was never a particularly popular product, but it did bring some interesting features to the table for the few who used it and became fans. One of these features was called Drive ...

Microsoft has greatly expanded the role of PowerShell in Windows server 2012. Although PowerShell has always offered at least some storage management capabilities, they have been greatly enhanced in ...

Windows Server 2008 R2 used the traditional disk management MMC snap-in to manage the disk configuration, as well as the handy DISKPART command-line tool. It is fair to say that the storage subsystem ...