The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. “Obviously” is a dangerous word, even in scenarios that seem simple. Suppose, for instance, you need to do an important computation. You ...

While SSDs are the preferred storage medium today, hard drives are far from obsolete. They're still the best way to store data that doesn't benefit from SSD speed, and of course people use them for ...

So I've got two computers. Computer one has one physical hard drive on it. Computer two has two physical hard drives on it. P-Drive C is partitioned into 3 drives. P-drive D is a single partition.