Western Digital is rolling out a new drive format that squeezes up to 11% more capacity from a hard disk by consolidating disk management information and using the resulting space for data storage.

Amid the widespread shift to subscription-based cloud storage solutions, relying on good-old physical drives can be a reassuring sense of independence. Whether you're trying to repurpose an old hard ...

Formatting your hard drive is an important step in setting up your computer. It clears all the data off the disk so that you can start fresh. DiskPart is a powerful command-line tool that allows you ...

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You can format an external drive quickly and easily in Windows, without the need of any third-party tools. But before you format your USB drive, you need to consider which file system to use. File ...

I'm a bit confused as to how quick-formatting works with RAID drives and when you need to do a full format.<BR><BR>I have two identical Seagate 320 Gb drives. When I added one of them to my system, ...