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If you’re thinking about escaping Windows 11’s telemetry creep or simply want to test a modern Linux desktop without committing, installing Linux alongside Windows — or replacing it entirely — remains the most practical option for most users. This guide walks a careful, practical path through...

In a year marked by shifting priorities in data privacy and an ever-increasing hunger for seamless, self-managed digital storage, the arrival of the Synology DiskStation DS925+ could not be better timed. This new iteration of Synology's celebrated NAS family claims to blend robust power...

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hello i have swapped my LSI MegaRAID SAS 9260-8i with an exact replacement . because my disks raid was not running correct and would start or keep asking to update drives. saying drivers needed update but the best and only driver are installed. so i was thinking raid card was bad...

How do you recover data/repair from a drive failure in Windows 10 Storage Spaces? I have 4X 4TB drives configured as RAID 1 (mirroring). I assumed that meant that a copy of the data was also stored on the other drives since only 8TB of the 16TB is available. I ID'd the failing drive and...

Shingled Magnetic Recording drives have a bad name, and rightly so if you need to write continuously for more than a couple of minutes, because the firmware just can't cope and frequently grinds to a halt for a few seconds. As someone who always buys NAS HDD's for their longevity and durability...

Hello, I just got done setting up a windows 10 raid setup. Everything is good however I do have a question. What happens if my Main boot drive fails on me and. I put in a new hard drive with the windows on it, How can I recover my raid drives I created while in windows from the old windows...

Hello, I'm running windows 10 pro. I have 4 of my dives as a Raid. however What I'm worried about is running my windows as a Nas. I;m not a linux person at all. I been on windows sense as long as I can remember. I do have linux systems and having a hard time trying to compile drives into a raid...

So I'm the poor schmuck that gives a crap about backups. I have scripts that are supposed to run every night, but due to IT corporate domain nonsense they make me change my password. The scripts are run from a local admin account (non-domain) but every time I change my network password, all...

Hi there, I'm setting up an HPE Proliant Microserver Gen10 for a simple small office file share and host a Filemaker Database. There is 4 HD slots and I have 4 x 1TB drives. I can setup all four in a RAID 10 array which gives performance and redundancy but only gives me 1 volume. Should I be...

Hi. I have two 160gb hdd and I wanted to install windows in a raid 1 configuration with those drives. I have windows 10 currently installed in a third 320gb hdd and already transformed the other two into a single raid 1 partition. How do I install windows in the raid 1? Do I have to move the...

Hello I was working on my server didnt even touch the drives and it wont boot i have windows server 2012. I ran chkdsk and it found 7 errors says it fixed them but still wont boot ? blue screen says system wont boot ? could a old cmos be the problem ? I have a ssd samsung 850pro for main drive...

Hello I just recently mirrored 2 4tb hdds. If I where to add 2 more hdds to the mirror would that work ? Just trying to understand how to do that. Thanks

SATA Mode only shows RAID option. I did all the update on my Windows 10 and downloaded the necessary Drivers from my Unit's Manufacturer Website, Intel, and Microsoft. And my SSD M.2 2280 cannot be detected. I checked and it should be compatible. M.2 slot might be disabled but I don't know how...

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Hi everyone Im new here. My question is I have a windows server 2008 running. With filezila for ftp. And advances folder share for file sharing on my network. Is the any sort of bare bone windows system that will do the job. Keep it simple. Server 2008 is old now but does the job. I done use...

W 7 all updates. Raid 1 2x2TB, Windows disk image backup, Acronis full disc back up. No reboot/start. Restored system based on Windows disk image backup, Acronis full disc back up. Still no reboot/restart in W7. Would reboot in safe mode (w or w/o networking). System works in safe mode with...

Long story short, we have a machine with Win Server 2012 that becomes unusably slow after a period of time. Usually about a week. Meaning you can't access shared drives or it takes forever, you can't RDP or teamviewer in, and when I go to the actual server, its not usable either. It will take 10...

AMD release Chipset Drivers for Ryzen processors. This driver set offers optimized chipset compatibility with AMD Ryzen processors and AMD Socket AM4. Ready for AMD Ryzen processors - AMD Socket AM4 represents the company’s new future-proof platform targeting the fastest DDR4 memory, PCIe 3.0...