Highly available storage for Windows servers / Paul Massiglia.

Includes index.

Disk Storage Architecture -- Disk Storage Basics -- Data Basics -- Transient Data -- Persistent Data -- Disk Basics -- Disks, Data and Standards -- Magnetic Disk Operation -- Pulse Timing and Recording Codes -- Error Correction Codes -- Locating Blocks of Data on Magnetic Disks -- Logical Block Addressing -- Zoned Data Recording -- Disk Media Defects -- Writing Data on Magnetic Disks -- Intelligent Disks -- Other Applications of Disk Intelligence: SMART Technology -- Disk Controller and Subsystem Basics -- External and Embedded Array Controllers -- Host-Based Aggregation -- Volumes -- The Volume Concept -- Virtualization in Volumes -- Why Volumes? -- The Anatomy of Windows Disk Volumes -- Mapping and Failure Protection: Plexes -- Volumes That Are Not Failure Tolerant -- Simple Volumes -- Spanned Volumes -- Spanned Volumes and Failure Tolerance -- Spanned Volumes and I/O Performance -- Applications for Simple and Spanned Volumes -- Striped Volumes -- Striped Volumes and Failure Tolerance -- Striped Volumes and I/O Performance -- Applications for Striped Volumes -- Why Striped Volumes Are Effective -- Striped Volumes and I/O Request-Intensive Applications -- Striped Volumes and Data Transfer-Intensive Applications -- Stripe Unit Size and I/O Performance -- A Way to Categorize the I/O Performance Effects of Data Striping -- An Important Optimization for Striped Volumes: Gather Writing and Scatter Reading -- Failure-Tolerant Volumes: Mirroring and RAID -- RAID: The Technology -- RAID Today -- Mirrored Volumes.

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