Chapter 9

Managing Disks and Disk Storage

IN THIS CHAPTER, YOU WILL LEARN TO:

  • UNDERSTAND THE BASICS
    • Learn Disk Management and Storage Terminology
    • Work with Your Storage
    • Work with Partitions
    • Use DiskPart
  • WORK WITH RAID VOLUMES
    • Understand RAID Levels
    • Implement RAID
  • MANAGE DISK STORAGE
    • Manage Disk Storage Quotas
    • Work with Data Deduplication
  • WORK WITH STORAGE SPACES
    • Understand Storage Spaces
    • Create and Configure Storage Spaces

In this chapter, you will learn some of the fundamentals of working with the hard drives on your system. You will get to see the basics of hard drive management and learn how to create, format, and delete your partitions. You will look at the tools needed to make sure your disks are running properly and are properly formatted. ...

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