How important is system reliability? So important that entire industries have sprung up over the years to insure it. RAID systems are installed so that if one disk in a system fails, the data still ...

Thanks to ever increasing bandwidth, we can now email just about anything. Photographs, videos, sound files, slide shows and more are regularly attached to emails both in personal and business ...

Among the tidbits Apple revealed to its developer audience at the recently completed Worldwide Developers Conference was a new file system for the whole range of its products (see “macOS 10.12 Sierra ...

I tried doing a search, but that was waste of time. Just basic "should I defrag" and "when should I defrag" questions. Situation; Larger video files (500mb to 2GB) in a non O/S partition that were ...

Linux provides quite a few commands to look into file system types. Here's a look at the various file system types used by Linux systems and the commands that will identify them. Linux systems use a ...

I'm sure I'm not the first to notice this but why the hell do the files become so fragmented - mainly the .gcf files? All the fragments get shoved to the inner edge of the disk and after playing for ...

Claiming a first, QNX Software Systems this week took the wraps off a fault-tolerant, embedded transactional file system (ETFS) for NAND flash memory devices desgined to protect against power failures ...

Tuxera Inc., the market leader in file systems, streaming and network storage technologies, today released Tuxera Flash File System for Linux and Android, which is optimized to run on flash storages ...

There isn’t a wizard behind a curtain that will help speed your backups, but there is a formula for successfully cutting backup and recovery time. By following 10 simple tips, backup managers can heal ...

Have you ever needed to format a new hard drive or USB drive, and were given the option of selecting from acronyms like FAT, FAT32, or NTFS? Or did you once try plugging in an external device, only ...