I have a Home Theatre PC with Windows 2000 Pro and an 80GB hard drive. The drive is in two partitions, one for the OS and all programs, and the other exclusively for recordings. This means my average ...

Before discussing the difference between “Size” and “Size on disk” in detail, let’s see the basic differences between these terms. Here, I will also show you some calculations that will give the exact ...

When formatting a drive, one crucial setting to consider is the allocation unit size, which determines how the drive's space is divided into smaller units. This setting can significantly impact how ...

NTFS and FAT are a file system that represents a technique of organizing and storing the data on the drive. These file systems also specify what type of attributes can be attached to a file such as ...

Selecting the right NTFS cluster size is key to balancing storage scalability, efficiency and performance when expanding a Windows volume. In my previous article, I explained that I recently found ...

So, I've got a pretty good idea of what to do with this but wanted to get some input after reading the MS doc's on this and see what people in the real world were seeing. I've got an archive NAS ...