4 reasons you may want to use Virtual Hard Disks instead of partitioning storage, or not
This is quite interesting, but something not mentioned is performance of a virtual hard disk.
I’m familiar with virtual disks from using virtual machines like VirtualBox, QEMU, etc. But what I found was that if I made a separate macOS or Windows ...continues
See https://gadgeteer.co.za/4-reasons-you-may-want-to-use-virtual-hard-disks-instead-of-partitioning-storage-or-not/
#harddrives #storage #technology
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