storage technology

  1. R

    What use are SMR HDD's

    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...
  2. whoosh

    VIDEO SDC EMEA 2022: Computational Storage: How do NVMe CS and SNIA CS work together?

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  3. R

    Windows 7 Intel RST and Windows 7

    Recently I was asked to repair a Dell desktop PC running Windows 7. It had multiple problems, one of which was Windows update didn't work. I suspected corrupt system files. Running system file check did not help, nor did DISM. I looked at the registry and Windows services, but neither were of...
  4. Doors7

    Windows 7 Windows not responding

    My computer often freezes and becomes unresponsive. I can move the mouse and the UI is responsive to varying degrees, but even if anything loads, it takes ages. I usually have to resort to forced shutdown. I do not think it is a hardware issue, since Linux runs flawlessly. I checked the event...
  5. Mike

    Windows 8 I am going crazy over Windows 8 Storage Spaces

    What is going on here? Total madness? Link Removed Link Removed First, please let me apologize for the mass of wires, general techno geek junk, and other no-no’s like a can of diet Pepsi right next to my StarTech 4-port USB3 drive bay. Once I did some extensive reading about Storage...
  6. reghakr

    Windows 7 10 Reasons Why SSDs Are Better Than Mechanical Disks

    Have you ever heard the terms, head crash or stiction? Better yet, have you ever experienced either of them? These terms are just two of the unhappy occurrences associated with mechanical disks. What if disks didn't spin? What if there were a way to create rewriteable storage in such a way that...
  7. M

    Windows 7 Intel Rapid Storage Technology & Raid1 array

    Hi, I put two HDDs on GA P55A-UD4P motherboard in Raid1 type array (on Intel SATA Controller) and they were working fine for quite some time (2 weeks or so). One day, after Windows started up, I noticed a blue icon on Intel RST manager and it says that the array is initializing. What does...
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