storage solutions

I develop at home programs for use at work. At work the pc's get data from the server \\server\data\something I want to run programs at home and have a drive or directory on my HDrive such that when program asks for file from \\server\data\something then the local folder is accessed I do not...

Thanks to my discovery of this forum my video server is well on its way to being set-up (Thanks to Neemobeer). My next question has to do with setting up a RAID 5 array. As I understand RAID it provides some level of data redundancy and a higher read speed than a plain old JBOD (spanning)...

Hello, My C drive is almost full, 6 GB left now. I tried using EaseUS application to expand, but no use. I think because I have 2 different Disks. Disk 1 is the C drive which is almost full, and Disk 2 is my D drive, it has 300GB left, I want to take some from D drive to my C drive. Anyone...

LS, In a pre ReFS era, is it possible to somehow run a process(can be 3rd party software) that scans all disks (minimum of 3) in a mirror setup. If all but 1 disk have the same data then repair that 1 bad data to be similar to the others. If more than 1 disk report some different data then...

Hi all! I'm hoping this is an appropriate place to post this question. Here is the rundown of equipment: Three laptops, each running a different OS-7, 8 (or 8.1), and 10. Three external hard drives that are used and accessed regularly (and one back up) Currently, I have a Homegroup hosted on...

Hello, When i use feature Backup of Windows 10, i see in Option "Back Up These Folders" some libraries as default. I know that i can add or remove libraries or i can exclude Folders. But, happens that, when i leave the backup and days ago i come to do another backup, it appears again with the...

An answer to this question may clear up my confusion: Can the C: drive be part of a pool, having all drives (including the c: drive) look like 1 drive? If so, how do I do that? I created a storage space, but it made me set it up as drive D:, and I see no way to combine it with C:. To clarify...

Describes how to configure an automated disaster recovery solution for StorSimple file shares Link Removed

This is potentially more of a server question, but it seems there is very little activity on there. I've also looked around a bit on here for this topic but it appears other post go unanswered, so I thought I would give it a try. We are running Windows 7 clients mostly but should be moving...

I have a hp stream note book w/ 21.3 gb capacity; i tried to upgrade to 10 (I have 8.1) but I didn't have enough disk space in drive c. What it the best way to upgrade? Portable hard drive, flash drive, or another method? I have 4.35 gb available in c.

I was wondering something... I have bought a new 1TB SATA hard drive to use in my desktop computer and to replace my old 80GB IDE hard drive currently sitting in there now. I have not long reinstalled Windows on it and installed all the updates. When the new hard drive comes, I want to be able...

I have a Windows 7 Pro X64 system which boots from a two-disk hardware RAID-1 array, operating from an Adaptec 2405 hardware-RAID controller. I want to migrate my system and all data back to a single, new hard drive. I use Paragon Hard Disk Manager Suite 15, which has a handy Copy Disk option...

Hello I tried to post at hardware but it did not respond so I am trying here. A while ago I made home movies into DVDs which were saved to a format by Ashampoo which I have forgotten but I was warned they could only be played on computers . Now that we are moving away from optical drives, I had...

Hi; Can i use previous version on external hard and what i should take in consider? thanks

Assume I have a hard disk which supports SATA III (=verified). I want to put this hard disk into an external hard disk case and connect it by USB v3.0 to my computer. Later I want to use case and hard disk as backup storage. Now I doubt that the case supports really SATA III. My guess is that...

Hi I'm trying to get the drive (Disk 1) back to one simple basic disk. It shows as 2 drive D:\s now for some reason, I have no idea why it appears this way. I have eliminated that other partitions that were on the drive but it won't let me format of delete the D:\ partition. How do I get the...

This paper explains how to deploy Microsoft Azure StorSimple, Windows file servers, and Windows Server Distributed File System Namespace to create a global namespace for all the shares created in StorSimple Link Removed

I've been having trouble with moving files between my hard drive and my user in my SSD, so to make it easier, is there anyway to assign the hard drive to my user or make a user folder in the hard drive?

Creating a virtual drive in vmware or hyper-v As a modern system hyper-v breaks a hdd into small pieces automatically but vmware still asks the user a question… do you want me too do this? Option 1 = a single file and option 2 is break the disc up into small pieces so what's the different and...

Hi I've always put some of my software on other drives than the one that Windows is on. But when I set up Windows 10 I decided to keep the install small and not put any of my software in the Program Files of Program Files (x86) folders. I installed all my software in a folder on another...