4 reasons you should never partition another hard drive again ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...

Solid-state drives are all the rage lately, thanks to their high transfer speeds and ultrafast access times, but most people still use cheap, spacious mechanical hard drives. Unfortunately, mechanical ...

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Hello,<BR><BR>I'll soon be building a system around a WD 640gb Caviar Black, which is a 2-platter drive. It will be dual booting WinXP and Linux, so I'll need to partition it. I'm concerned that ...

For any partition management work, there are many free third-party tools available, but Windows includes a pretty good Disk Management Tool that should suffice you for most of your disk management ...

We've covered proper solid state drive maintenance before, but one of the most overlooked factors in proper SSD care is partition alignment. Here's how to make sure your partitions are aligned ...