If you just built a PC, or added a brand new hard drive or SSD to an existing computer, you have to format it before you can actually store data on it. This is called 'initializing' the drive.

Hi there. I am looking at a HP DL-160-G6 server for a SQL server instalation. I would like to use SSD drives for this, but HPs shareholders are cleary looking for a new car or a bigger house. To ...