One of the first big challenges neophyte sysadmins and data hoarding enthusiasts face is how to store more than a single disk worth of data. The short—and traditional—answer here is RAID (a Redundant ...

How many of you have come home from an exhausting day of work or class, popped a game into your PlayStation 2, and sat down on the couch only to see "Disk Read Error" on your TV? For many, it's an all ...

The electronic heart of a hard disk drive is the read-channel integrated circuit (IC). Over the years, read-channel designers have delivered dramatic improvements in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), ...

Disk Utility provides features for creating disk images, RAID, and repairing disks. In the second part of our deep dive, we'll look at those options. In part 1 of this series, we looked at the basics ...

There’s a significant number of Modern Warfare players who started experiencing Disc Read error 3.1 a few months ago. The confusing thing is that the error seems to ...

Note that the command output displays user, system and idle time along with other stats like disk read and write activity, interrupts and context switches. The following command displays the top ...

What Are Disk Speed Test Apps? Disk speed test apps help measure the overall speed and performance of a hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD) (internal or external) connected to a computer system.

The possible causes for this error can range from a simple dirty disc to a more serious disc drive malfunction. Blu-ray disc is dirty, scratched, or cracked. If you ...

Optical storage can last a century, give faster access to data, and is backward compatible with earlier optical technology, yet disk drives and tape rule in long-term storage. Optical media is the ...