If you're looking for a significant performance boost for your middle-aged laptop, replacing your aging hard disk with a solid state disk (SSD) could give your computer a new lease on life.

One of the first things new Linux users often get confused about is the need to create a disk partition for swap space. After all, neither Windows nor Mac OS X make you do any such thing, what's the ...

Q: How much swap space should I allocate, and what is the best configuration for good performance? Why don’t and sar agree on the quantity of swap space? — swapless in Shawano A: First, I had better ...

Disk space can easily become a nightmare, especially on system drives of older servers. Since most Windows NT system drives are limited to 4 GB, running services from other volumes and preserving that ...

When it comes to system administration, one of the earliest decisions to be made is how to configure swap space. Many readers already are thinking they know what to do: throw in as much RAM as you can ...

I've gotten an SSD to replace the disk in my MBP. I decided to get the largest drive I could so I could keep the DVD drive for the moment. I may swap the current hard drive back in at some later date.

“We hear a lot of excuses from companies about why they aren't ready to implement solid-state storage, with the most-frequently cited excuse being confused as to what the technology can actually do ...

To convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk without losing data, you may use the free edition of NIUBI Partition Editor. The software offers a straightforward, step-by-step approach to disk conversion, ...

I have a small quick drive that I'd like to have as my linux swap space, however I also use it for my paging file in win2k and as my photoshop scratch disk under win2k.<BR><BR>As I see it, if I format ...