Regardless of the size of your network, disk space sooner or later becomes an issue. You can help mitigate this storage problem with compression, which decreases the amount of disk space required to ...

I ran Disk Cleanup on my laptop this evening and decided to go ahead and "compress old files" as part of the process. I've never done that before but I figured what the hell since I've only got about ...

Roelof Die Hoenderboer was having issues running Windows 10 on his 16GB SSD. Windows 10 works best with more disk space. While it’s not optimal to run Windows 10 from a 16GB or even 32GB SSD, the OS ...

Smplify CEO Al Wegener reviews the many ways files are compressed in personal computer systems, including the "x" extension on Windows files, Windows "Disc-Compress," Lempel-Ziv (LZ) for OpenXML, MLC ...

One of the most vital jobs of a computer’s operating system — its basic software — is storing and retrieving information on disks at the request of programs like word processors or spreadsheets.

The hard disk on my vintage-1987 computer used to be a lot bigger. When it was new, it had an enormous 33 megabytes of open space. Today the same hard disk is cramped and claustrophobic, with a ...

FREMONT, Calif., June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) introduced the industry's first hardware-accelerated backup-to-disk data ...

While presenting at AWS re:Invent this year, Zesty also announced that Zesty Disk is now publicly available on the AWS Marketplace, standardizing users' integration of the leading block storage ...