Mac shipments may be outpacing the industry as a whole, but if you need a reminder it’s still a Windows world, look no further than new hard drives. The majority are formatted for PCs, requiring them ...

When you have a new hard drive, or when you're reinstalling Windows, the OS may ask you to format the drive. If given a choice, the two common modes are NTFS and FAT32. But what are those, and why ...

Move over, NTFS — Microsoft has announced a newly engineered file system, ReFS, for Windows Server 8. ReFS, or Resilient File System, builds on NTFS, including many of its features but leaving out ...

Microsoft on Thursday revealed that Windows 8 will have a sophisticated "storage spaces" feature that works with the forthcoming operating system's New Technology File System (NTFS). Storage spaces is ...

On Windows Server 2016 or 2019, how long has "chkdsk /r" taken on large volumes (>2 TB)? I'm thinking through the pros and cons between using NTFS on file servers and replicating the data using DFS, ...

If you are looking for a tiny bit of good news this weekend, here you go—Microsoft has apparently figured out a way to prevent a weird and potentially destructive Windows 10 bug from scrambling your ...

Microsoft’s OneDrive cloud storage service lets you store files online, sync files between PCs, and share files with other users. Anyone can get 5GB of storage for free, and Microsoft offers paid ...

Microsoft detailed its long awaited and arguably well overdue NTFS replacement yesterday, the Resilient File System (ReFS), on the Building Windows 8 blog. It marks the first time the Redmond-based ...

Microsoft revealed that Windows 8 will have a sophisticated "storage spaces" feature that works with that OS'es NTFS. Storage spaces is a kind of storage virtualization feature in Windows 8 that can ...