CHAPTER 1
Storage Essentials
In this chapter, you will learn how to
• Explain how drive storage systems work
• Describe the types of disk interfaces and their characteristics
• Combine multiple disks to achieve larger storage and fault tolerance
• Classify the way hosts interact with disks
At its most basic level, storage starts with a disk. These disks, connected either internally or externally to systems via interfaces, can be accessed by systems to read or write data. Disks can also be combined to achieve greater speed than each disk could individually provide, or they can be combined to protect against one or more disk failures. One or more disks are then presented to a host, enabling it and its applications to work with the storage. ...
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