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Budget (including currency): <$1,000USD Country: US Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Remote access server to push .pdf files to various users' tablets (~30 users on Android and iPadOS) in a user friendly solution while also storing raw footage for editing and being able to store/stream finalized video projects to be accessed either remotely or on the same local network. Specifically, 1.) I want my band to have a digital library of sheet music (in .pdf format) that they can pull from as long as they have internet or are on the same local network and 2.) for the amateur production team to be able to pull the raw video footage of our concerts, edit on DaVinci Resolve, and export back onto the server. Other details: I might pull parts from my current PC (for when I upgrade) like the motherboard, CPU, and RAM but I would like to build a network rack and be able to remotely access the server via RDP. Current PC is listed here: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/BXtvBc. I plan to have this server at the rehearsal studio our band practices in but if that isn't a viable option, I will keep it at home. Windows preferred! I more or less have an idea of the parts for the server but unsure as to what a good network rack would be and all the ways to set up the specific configuration I'm looking for. Something like a Plex server but for .pdf files and a remote access NAS for the editing footage? This will also be my first server so noobspeak is very much appreciated.

Hello coders of LTT I want to make a algorithm/programing that can take all of my unsorted emails and put then into there correct folders. I don't know much about coding in python or batch and the only thing that i can code in is C# and it cant really work that well for this task. so I am hoping that someone mite be able to help me with the problem. or point the way to victory. hope to here form you guys soon -Ziondaman

I was thinking about how the RAM access the secondary memory and accumulate the appropriate data corresponding to file to run. But how does it moves from one fragment to another if the disc is fragmented? Is there a pointer at the end of data or there is indexing for every file fragment on somewhere?

which of these file systems would you prefer over others for a 10+ TB multi driver NAS? your thoughts and reasons below!

Hi everyone, I am here looking for some advice on choosing a file system for my external drive. Let me explain my situation abbot first. My main computer is a MacBook Pro with an 1TB internal SSD. I've been storing my 500GB library on my internal SSD and I'm using Dropbox to backup my music library. Recently I decided to move my music library alongside with a lot of other stuff to an external drive and use CrashPlan to backup that external drive, and the first problem I encountered was the choice of the file system. Here's my understanding of my choices: HFS+: At first I thought HFS+ had to be super reliable being the default file system on Mac, but I've since read articles about HFS+ bit rot and it not being a good file system in general. Basically the more research I do on HFS+, the worse it seems. ExFAT: Again, this looked like a good choice at first, but I then read horror stories about files corrupting regularly on exFAT and how unreliable it is for hard drives since it's optimized for flash storage. So has anyone had good luck with exFAT? Is it really that unreliable? FAT32: I originally passed on it simply because of how old it is, and I thought newer stuff had to be better. But maybe it's not actually a bad choice? NTFS: From the research I did, NTFS seems like a very reliable tried-and-true file system, and I'm actually already paying for Tuxera NTFS. But he fact that NTFS is not being natively supported on Mac still bothers me a little. Am I worrying too much? So yeah, I think I'm kind of stuck. To me it looks like there is no good choice. Can anyone please give me some suggestions? Thanks!

In windows explorer, it says that my C drive has 76 GB of free space out of the 222 GB it has total. However, looking in the folders located in that drive, they account to 109 GB. 222 -109 = 113 so why does windows report that it has 76 GB free? Are there 37 GB of ghost files or something? I'm at a loss here and could use some help. My C drive is an SSD btw, it's an NVMe m.2 drive. I have used Defraggler to optimize the drive already, as well as Win10 drive check.

Me in my infinite wisdom decided to set my file system to exfat for my D drive. But now I need to change it to NTFS. Is there a way to change it without any data loss? If not, if I just copy everything off of this to an external ssd. Reformat D to NTFS and paste everything back, will the software installed on D still work? I'm assuming that there would be system files that won't copy?

Hi there, I've posted a while ago about a problem that I had when trying to have an SSD + HDD combo in my laptop (cant have them both up and running at the same time and getting an error message that says cant read from hard drive when booting windows), after digging in the internet for a while I found a solution that says maybe the file system is different between the two drives, after small research I found that changing the file system is pretty easy, now my question is : if my SSD has only one partition which is also the same one that has the OS on it, what will happen if I change the file system ? because in the process every thing will be wiped … and even if it had two partitions, how will I convert the one with the OS on it ? Thanks a lot ❤

Hello, I'm dual-booting Windows/Linux and for various reasons I need to be able to access data from my Linux and BSD partitions from Windows. Rebooting into Linux each time to copy files into the Windows partition is annoying and it seems like if Linux can read/write to Windows, the opposite should also be true. Most of the drives I'm using today are EXT4, but there's a few BTRFS and ReiserFS on some older systems which I may need to be able to access in the future. What is the most reliable way to access that information from within Windows?

I get this error when i try to open photos.... Cant seem to find the answer online either.

So this morning, I remembered that the drive I use as an external HDD (via USB) has a Vista partition on it from the time when said HDD was on another laptop. I used to boot it from time to time just for fun but I hadn't done it in a long while. Since I was planning to delete the windows install from it and wanted to know what programs/data I should be looking to export before format, I decided to boot it again as an external HDD. I boot it up, I get the Vista loading bar then blue screen with a STOP code. I thought it must be some driver error or something of the sort. I try again in safe mode, same BSOD. At this point I don't look further into it since the partition was for another laptop and decided to just reboot Win 7 from my main drive. When rebooting, the drive just stopped working. When plugged, it would show up after 20-30 seconds as Local Disk (D:) but remains inaccessible with no size information or anything of that sort. I proceeded to install the drive on my second HDD bay to see if it's a faulty external HDD case. Same result. Drive shows up, can't be read from, chkdsk d: stays stuck on a blank line (doesn't even retrieve drive info, let alone start the check) and diskmgmt.msc keeps loading endlessly. The thing is, I know it's only a logical error and that there is no lost data because 1) No physical damage was done to the disk throughout this entire process, I've moved drives around countless times and 2) I went back after the drive became unreadable and tried to boot Vista again. It worked. Same Vista loading bar, same BSOD. The partition still works. But I don't know why my OS can't checkdisk the drive. So help would be appreciated Tell me if you need anymore info. Update: The drive is showing up as a device (Toshiba+model number), but the drive itself is still inaccessible/uncheckable. Some Minitool Partition Wizard screens (Check file system doesn't work, starts and remains stuck): https://imgur.com/a/GCC6Hmc https://imgur.com/a/XnfxDP1 https://imgur.com/a/O2k9pb9

A few months ago I used a USB drive to install Ubuntu, and later wanted to revert the drive to it normal state again. Now the drive registers normally on both Windows and Ubuntu, while in Mac the drive mounts but the contents used to boot Ubuntu are displayed, while the actual files stored on the drive are not visible in any way. What I did: Used diskpart in Windows 10 to delete all partitions in the drive Created a primary partition Formatted that partition into FAT32 using a full format (not quick format) Any ideas on how to fix the issue? BTW the drive is a Kingston 100 G3, 16G Thanks!

I know this question had been asked before and I promise I'm not a noob but I had a bad windows install recently so I cleaned the drive using Diskpart but when I partitioned it I made it MBR. Well now I have converted it from MBR to GPT but now the windows install disk is throwing an error saying I can't install on a GPT. I switched it back to my other computer and was jsut going to try and reformat it but I a getting worried. What should I do?

OS: Linux - Elementary os freya 64bit HDD: WD black 2TB Elementary os has been complaining about no more space on boot partition for a while. Today i tried to install software (i think it was gparted) to make the partition bigger, but the installation failed. Ubuntu software center tried to repair some software but i dont know what software it repaired. I tried to make a topic here but right after i clicked "follow this topic" the system froze. then the screen got full of rainbow colored noise. I tried to restart my computer but the screed said "BOOT ERROR", i pressed enter (this has worked before) and it seemed like it was going to work. then the screen was full of text (like the linux console but without the ability to write commands). I remember the last line said something like " kernel panic VFS couldnt mount fs" + i have got the boot error message during boot some times before. when i pressed enter the message went away and the system booted normally.

Hi everyone I'm planning on building a small home nas and before I decide what os and parts to build I need to decide what file system I want the nas to run. I know that as storage drives and files get bigger and bigger bit rot/data rot becomes more and more of a pressing issue. Other than ZFS (which I would use FreeNAS for), are there any other ways to prevent bit rot? I heard of ReFS for windows which also does checksumming to prevent bit rot. Is this a viable option (windows 8 pc with shared pools?) Are there any other options that I don't know of or a way to scrub and NTFS drive? Thanks for the help. @Captain_WD (just tagged because I know you know a lot about storage)

A few years ago before I was as tech savvy as I am now, my grandma bought me a Macbook, and a 3-year warranty for it at future shop (she isn't really tech savvy either). So a week ago I had no option but to walk home from school in the rain. Apparently that 10-minute walk was enough to cause water damage in my mac. Future Shop told me to fuck off once they saw the water damage, and said "Oh, we don't cover water damage" whilst twiddling his nipples, despite the fact that my grandma paid $300 for a warranty. So, now I am trying to get back approximately 20 hours of school work that will have to be redone if not recovered. Right now my PC and my X-macbook are both sitting naked on my desk, and the drive from the mac is connected to my PC. Obviously, Mac and Windows use different file systems, so windows will not let me explore the drive, but recognizes it in disk management and disk part. Disk part will not let me set the drive as active because it is not a MBR drive, and the only option in disk management is to delete the volumes. Please help, I have a feeling the solution is a 3rd party software that can read the mac file system, or possibly going out and buying a small enclosure and hooking it up to a friend's mac via USB. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. EDIT: OMG, it worked! Thank you all so much. The solution was to use MacDrive to read the file system. Thank you from saving me from spending the rest of the week rewriting English Journals.

I'm currently searching for a utility that will allow me to find duplicate files on a computer. I've downloaded freeware in the past that advertised finding duplicates, but I soon realized that it only found files that shared the exact same file name. What I need is a program that scans the file contents and isn't dependent on file name alone. I would prefer a free utility, something with a couple ads doesn't bother me, as long as it is a safe program. I would also be willing to spend up to $10 if the program is amazing. If anyone has had experience with any programs that will find duplicate files and loved them, please share what program it was and if you would recommend it. Thanks.