| Hard Disks and How They Are Organized | |
| Hardware Components of the Hard Drive | |
| SCSI versus ATA | |
| ATA Drives | |
| Small Computer Systems Interface Drives | |
| What's on a Disk | |
| Disk Performance Definitions and Metrics | |
| Disk Formatting | |
| Grouping Disks: Stripe Sets and RAID | |
| Evaluating Disks | |
| Mean Time Between Failures | |
| Windows File Systems | |
| Enterprise Windows | |
| Magnetic Disk Systems | |
| FAT | |
| NTFS | |
| Additional NTFS Features | |
| FAT versus NTFS | |
| Converting FAT to NTFS | |
| Optical Disk Formats | |
| Partitioning Strategies | |
| Summary | |
| Hard Drive Reliability | |
| MTBF Explained | |
| Adding Up the Cost of Disk Failure | |
| Don't Rely on Backup | |
| Don't Rely on RAID | |
| Predicting Failure | |
| Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology | |
| How Often Do Disks Fail? | |
| Not So SMART | |
| Products using SMART | |
| Compaq Insight Manager | |
| OEM Disk Monitoring Tools | |
| SpinRite | |
| Hot Swapability | |
| Disks Will Fail | |
| Disk Management Basics for Windows 2000 | |
| The Importance of Disk Management | |
| Basic Tasks | |
| Disk Management Console | |
| Converting a Basic Disk to a Dynamic Disk | |
| Basic/Dynamic Disks and Windows XP | |
| Be Dynamic, Choose Dynamic | |
| Backing Up Windows Networks | |
| No More Simple Backups | |
| Windows Backup: What it Includes | |
| Using the Built-In Windows Backup Utility | |
| Emergency Repair Disk and Restore Functions | |
| Additional XP Backup Features | |
| Beyond Basic Backups | |
| Backup Cautions | |
| Backing up Mixed Windows/Linux Networks | |
| Storage Portal Case Study | |
| Disaster Recovery and Disk Management | |
| Is Your Data Really Protected? | |
| A Blended Approach to Data Protection | |
| Contingency Plan | |
| Make DRP Comprehensive | |
| The Economics of Disaster | |
| Recognition of Mission Critical Elements | |
| Drilling | |
| Data Organization | |
| Test and Refine Some More | |
| Disk Performance and Fragmentation | |
| History and Origins of Fragmentation | |
| Does NTFS Suffer from Fragmentation? | |
| How Much Fragmentation Occurs in NTFS | |
| Defining Fragmentation | |
| Free Space Fragmentation | |
| Fragmentation Adversely Affects Systems Stability | |
| Remedying Fragmentation | |
| How Defragmenters Work | |
| Defragmentation Safety Issues | |
| Defragmentation Performance Testing | |
| Windows 2000 Tests | |
| Running the Windows 2000 Disk Defragmenter | |
| WDD Cautions | |
| Better Free Defragmenter | |
| Defragmenting a System | |
| Hardware Upgrades versus Defragmentation | |
| TCO of Manual versus Network Defragmenters | |
| Uptime Guarantee | |
| Disk Optimization: Optimum or Not? | |
| Hard Drives Are Slow | |
| Enter Optimization | |
| Optimization Pros and Cons | |
| Optimization Shortcomings | |
| Proven Disk Performance Solutions | |
| Conclusions | |
| Quotaing of Disks | |
| What is a Disk Quota? | |
| Quota Terminology | |
| Disk Quota Management | |
| Strengths of the Windows 2000 Built In Quota Utility | |
| Limitations | |
| Third Party Alternatives | |
| Case Study | |
| Conclusion: Upgrade to a Third Party Disk Quota Tool | |
| Hard Disk Forensics: The Hard Disk as a Source of Evidence | |
| The Rise of Computer Crime | |
| Melissa | |
| I Love You | |
| Definitions of Computer Crime and Computer Forensics | |
| Uses of Computer Forensics | |
| Recovering Evidence | |
| Printed versus Electronic Versions | |
| Microsoft Word Confessions | |
| Preserving Confidentiality in Microsoft Word | |
| Finding Missing Files | |
| Shredder Programs | |
| Forensic Software | |
| Simplifying Disk Management for Storage Assets | |
| Snapshot Technology | |
| Copy-on-Write | |
| Split Mirror | |
| Backing up SQL Server | |
| Breakthrough in Backup and Recovery Performance | |
| Microsoft System Restore | |
| Shadow Sets | |
| Advantages of VSS | |
| Storage Virtualization | |
| Storage and RAID | |
| Server Attached Storage | |
| Storage Area Networks | |
| SAN Appliances | |
| What is True Storage Virtualization? | |
| Virtualization Scenarios | |
| Virtualization and Windows-Based Servers | |
| Server Consolidation and Disk Management Simplification | |
| Harsh Economic Realities | |
| Assessing the Reliability, Availability, and Manageability of the Data Center | |
| Data Center Cost Analysis | |
| Leveraging New Technologies to Streamline Data Center Operations | |
| Scaling Out | |
| Scaling Up | |
| Server Price and Performance | |
| Wintel Servers Challenge Domination of Big Three | |
| Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | |
| Midrange Hardware for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | |
| Fewer Servers | |
| Server Consolidation at La-Z-Boy | |
| Limits to Consolidation | |
| When Consolidation Makes Sense | |
| Windows Past, Windows Present: Windows NT and Windows 2000 | |
| Windows NT | |
| Windows NT in Action | |
| NT's Days Are Numbered | |
| The Windows 2000 Server Family | |
| Windows 2000 Server | |
| Certified for Windows 2000 Log | |
| Windows 2000 Advanced Server | |
| Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | |
| Datacenter Server User Study | |
| The Rigors of Windows 2000 Migration | |
| The Three Active Directory States: Native Mode, Mixed Mode, and Parallel Mode | |
| Windows 2000 Migrations Tools | |
| Making the Transition to Native Mode | |
| Consolidating Directories | |
| Windows 2000 Migration Case Studies | |
| No Universal AD Panacea | |
| Windows Present: Windows XP | |
| No More DOS | |
| XP Fastboot | |
| Prefetching | |
| Layout Optimization | |
| Boot Optimization versus File Optimization | |
| XP Fast Resume | |
| Tips to Improve the Impact of Fastboot and Fast Resume | |
| Underlying XP Architecture | |
| Beware XP's Consumer Features | |
| The XP Windows Media Player | |
| The XP CD Burner | |
| The XP Defragger | |
| XP's Security Features | |
| XP's Task Manager | |
| XP's Performance Tool | |
| XP Quotas | |
| XP Backup | |
| Backward Compatibility of XP | |
| Extending Hardware Lifespan | |
| Improved XP Management | |
| Only Room For So Much | |
| Windows Present/Future: .NET Server 2003, 64-bit Computing and Beyond | |
| Microsoft .NET | |
| What is .NET? | |
| .NET and Web Services | |
| The .NET Starting Roster | |
| .NET Case Study: Making the Case for Information Sharing | |
| Nothing But .NET: What are the Alternatives to .NET? | |
| .NET Slam Dunk | |
| .NET Server 2003 | |
| The Members of .NET Server 2003 Family | |
| 64-bit Windows | |
| 64-bit at a Glance | |
| Who needs 64 bit? | |
| The Next Few Years of Windows: Longhorn, Blackcomb and XP Second Edition | |
| Asset Management for Server Hardware and Software | |
| The Asset Management Explosion | |
| Hot Spots | |
| Piracy and Asset Management | |
| Asset Management Strata | |
| System/Desktop Management Platforms | |
| Microsoft Systems Management Server | |
| Simplifying Asset Management | |
| Software Deployment and Distribution on Windows Platforms | |
| Deployment Complexity | |
| Security Breaches | |
| Securing the Walls | |
| XP Patches | |
| Frameworks and Software Deployment | |
| Microsoft Tools and Software Deployment | |
| Site Licensing/Tracking Software | |
| Software Deployment Case Study | |
| Do You Feel Lucky? | |
| Your Disk and Disk Management Future | |
| The Storage Industry is Healthy | |
| Faster Data Transfer | |
| Bigger and Better Drives | |
| Fujitsu Drives | |
| What the Future Holds | |
| Conclusion | |
| Glossary of Terms | |
| Bibliography | |
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