All these terms i.e., partition, volume, and logical drive are data storage units. But there are differences that we have tried to cover in this post below. Let’s learn about them one by one. A ...

Despite virtualization becoming more relevant and multiple drives (including external) installed on your PC, there are still good reasons to use multiple partitions on Windows PCs. Regarding Windows, ...

Computers (specifically laptops) generally only come with one hard drive or SSD, which is where all of your data is stored. However, you can split your disk into partitions that are treated as ...

As a test run for upgrading to a SSD, I just cloned my Toshiba laptop's 720Gb HDD to a 1Gb HDD using Macrium Reflect. The target HDD was connected to the laptop by a USB docking station. The clone is ...

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Synology DSM partitions a 2tb drive as 2.38g for the OS 2.00gb for the swap file and an 127mb "unallocated" before user created partitions and 99mb "unallocated" after. I think the space for the OS ...

Windows operating system allows users to create different partitions on a hard disk. They can use these hard disk partitions for different purposes, like installing Windows operating system, storing ...

Several people with new hard drives have had this problem, and they have attributed it to bugs in the version of Disk Utility that's bundled with Leopard. While bugs and incompatibilities can't always ...