Networking For Dummies, 12th Edition

Chapter 13

Managing Network Storage

IN THIS CHAPTER

Understanding disk storage

Looking at file servers

Creating shares

Setting permissions

One key purpose of most computer networks is to provide shared access to disk storage. In this chapter, you find out about several ways that a network can provide shared disk storage. Then you discover how to configure Windows Server 2019 to operate as a file server.

Understanding Disk Storage

We’re all familiar with using disk drives to store data: Every Windows computer system in use today has some sort of disk storage on which data is stored. The following sections explain some of the underlying concepts of disk storage you need to understand as you plan how disk storage can be shared on a network.

Hard disk drives

A traditional disk drive stores data on rotating disks that are covered with magnetic material. A disk of this type is often called a hard disk drive (HDD), though sometimes the term spinning disk is used.

The modern HDD was invented by IBM in 1956, just a few years before I was born. It had a capacity of a whopping 5MB and had ...