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    Using ReFS for single drives

    No matter how well a storage array performs, if my data won't be safe from drive failure in a real world scenario, I don't care how fast it's whizzing to and from the storage set. And the business customers we support have the same viewpoint. This is exactly the reason I don't employ RAID-0...
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    Passthrough storage for virtualization?

    Such as a hard disk, removable drive or CD/DVD-ROM. However, desktop VMs can benefit from directly attaching to a physical device known as a passthrough disk. sthrough disks connect to thevirtual machine (VM) and serve as a storage source with an existing file system and disk file format. They...
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    How to reformat HDD & SSD to 512B Sector Size

    You can't change the sector size of a hard drive - the sectors are created when the hard drive is manufactured and can't be changed. You can change the NTFS cluster size (also called the "allocation unit size") of the file system using Disk Manager as shown by nikorr, but you have to reformat...