2.6. Mass Storage
It is a given that an enterprise stores more data today than ever before. There are large databases, and numerous, sizeable flat files. Operating systems and executables (programs) are also larger than ever before.
Mass storage consists of more and more disk drives, collected and connected together to provide the space necessary for the large files and databases.
It started by filling a server’s drive bay with SCSI disk drives. This was (and is) called embedded storage. Of course, storage requirements outgrew this arrangement, so manufacturers had a great idea: directly attached storage.
With directly attached storage, you merely installed a SCSI host bus adapter in the server and strung multiple SCSI drives together along ...
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