Chapter 16. Maintaining and optimizing storage

Managing NTFS disk quotas

Automated disk maintenance

Automated optimization of disks

Windows Server 2012 R2 has many features that reduce the amount of manual maintenance you must perform on disk drives, including NTFS disk quotas, automated disk maintenance, and automated disk optimization. The key to success with these features is a strong understanding of how the features work and how they can be optimized to meet the needs of your organization.

Managing NTFS disk quotas

Even with the large disk drives available today, you’ll often find that hard disk space is at a premium, and this is where disk quotas come in handy. Disk quotas are a built-in feature of NTFS that help you manage and limit disk-space ...

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