Regardless of the size of your network, disk space sooner or later becomes an issue. You can help mitigate this storage problem with compression, which decreases the amount of disk space required to ...

Q-I recently updated MS-DOS 5.0 to 6.22, and this new version features DriveSpace, a disk compression utility. My hard drive presently is about 80 percent full, and I can’t afford a bigger drive yet.

Smplify CEO Al Wegener reviews the many ways files are compressed in personal computer systems, including the "x" extension on Windows files, Windows "Disc-Compress," Lempel-Ziv (LZ) for OpenXML, MLC ...

One of the most vital jobs of a computer’s operating system — its basic software — is storing and retrieving information on disks at the request of programs like word processors or spreadsheets.

FREMONT, Calif., June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Exar Corporation (Nasdaq: EXAR) introduced the industry's first hardware-accelerated backup-to-disk data ...

The hard disk on my vintage-1987 computer used to be a lot bigger. When it was new, it had an enormous 33 megabytes of open space. Today the same hard disk is cramped and claustrophobic, with a ...

While presenting at AWS re:Invent this year, Zesty also announced that Zesty Disk is now publicly available on the AWS Marketplace, standardizing users' integration of the leading block storage ...

The built-in Disk Cleanup Utility helps remove old and junk files from your Windows installation. It includes several options and types of files that can be removed. One of the options is to compress ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. One of the chief complains about Windows 7 was how much space an ...