45 lines
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45 lines
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Markdown
# Data storage
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## Spinning Disks
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Cheaper for more storage
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## RAID - Redundant Array of Independent Disk
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Raid 0: basically cramming multiple drives and treating them as one. Data is striped across the drives but if one fails then you literally lose a chunk of data.
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Raid 1: data is mirrored across the drives so it's completely redundant so if one fails the other is still alive. It's not a backup however since file updates will affect all the drives.
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Raid 5: parity. Combining multiple drives allows us to establish the parity of the data on other drives to recover that data if it goes missing.(min 3 drives)
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Raid 6: same in principle as raid 5 but this time we have an extra drive for just parity.
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Raid 10: 0 and 1 combined to have a set of drives in raid 0 and putting those together in raid 1 with another equally sized set of drives.
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## Network Attached Storage - NAS
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Basically space stored on the local network.
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## Storage Attached Network - SAN
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Applicable when we virtualise whole os's for users, we use a storage device attached to the network to use different operating systems
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# Managing Storage
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Outsourcing the storage for users to services like Onedrive because it becomes their problem and not ours.
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# Storage as a Service
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Ensure that the OS gets its own space/partition on a drive and give the user their own partition to ruin. That way the OS(windows) will just fill its partition into another dimension.
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# Backup
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Other people's data is in your hands so make sure that you backup data in some way.
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Some external services can be nice if you find that you constantly need to get to your backups.
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Tape records are good for archival purposes; keep in mind that they are slow as hell.
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