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Differences Between the FAT, FAT32, and NTFS

Key differences:

Partition size limits

Sector size limits

Security

Data compression

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Types of Disks

Basic Disk

Dynamic Disk

You can create volumes that can span multiple disks

There is no requirement for contiguous space when

increasing or extending the size of a volume

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Types of Disks

Benefits of Basic Disk

Setup and Recovery Console access

Benefits of Dynamic Disk

Spanning multiple disks

Fault-tolerant capability

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What Is a Partition?

A physical disk is sectioned

into separate partitions OR
OR

A physical disk can have up to: Primary

Primary Primary
Primary

Four primary partitions, or

C: C:
C:
Three primary partitions
D: D:
D:
and one extended partition E:
E:
E:
E:
Extended partitions are F:
F:
F:
F:
G:
G:
subdivided into logical drives
H:
H:

Extended
Extended with
with
logical
logical drives
drives

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Types of Volumes

Simple Volume

Spanned Volume

Striped Volume (RAID-0)

Mirrored Volume (RAID-1)

RAID-5 Volume (Striped With Parity)

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What Is Fault Tolerance?

The ability to survive hardware failure

Fault-tolerant volumes provide data redundancy

Fault-tolerant volumes require dynamic disks

Fault-tolerant volumes are not a replacement for

backup

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What Is a Simple Volume?

Contains space on a single disk

Can be created only on dynamic disks

Simple
Simple Volume
Volume
Can be extended if formatted with NTFS

Fault Tolerance is not available

Spanning is not available

Read & Write Speed is Normal

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How Simple Volume works ?

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1
2
3
4 Volume
Disk 1
5
6

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What Is a Spanned Volume?

Spanning is available

Minimum - 2 Hard Disks

Maximum - 32 Hard Disks Spanned

Spanned Volume
Volume

Includes disk space from two or

more disks, filling the first disk,
then the second, and so on

Fault Tolerance is not available

Read & Write Speed is Normal

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How Spanned Volume works ?

123456
1
2 Disk 1
3
Volume
4
5 Disk 2
6

Administrator

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What Is a Striped Volume?

Minimum - 2 Hard Disks

Maximum - 32 Hard Disks
Data is written alternately and evenly to two or
more disks
Read & Write Speed is Fast

Spanning is available
Fault Tolerance is not available

Also Known as RAID-0

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How RAID 0 works ?

123456
1
3 Disk 1
5
Volume
2
4 Disk 2
6

Administrator

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What Is a Mirror Volume?

Minimum - 2 Hard Disks

Maximum - 2 Hard Disks

Simultaneously data will be written to two

volumes on two different disks

Almost any volume can be mirrored, including

the system and boot volumes

Read Speed is Fast & Write Speed is Slow

Fault Tolerance is available

50% overhead

Also Known as RAID-0

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How RAID 1 works ?

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1
2 Disk 1
3
Volume
1
2 Disk 2
3

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What Is a RAID-5 Volume?

Minimum - 3 Hard Disks

Maximum - 32 Hard Disks

Data is written alternately and evenly to two or

more disks and a parity is written on one disk

Read & Write Speed is Fast

Fault Tolerance is available

Also Known as Striped with parity

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How RAID 5 works ?

123456
1
3 Disk 1
P=5&6

2
Disk
P = 3 Volume
& 4 2
5

P=1&2
4 Disk 3
6

Administrator

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What will happen ?

New Disk

Disk
Generate
Data
Disk 22 Fails
Data
Generate
Fails
Recovered
Data
Data
Loss
Recovered
Data
Data
Loss

1
3 Disk 1
P=5&6

2
Volume Disk
P=3& 4 2
5

P=1&2
4 Disk 3
6

Administrator

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What Is a Mounted Drive?

Is assigned a path rather than a drive letter

Allows you to add more drives without using up

drive letters

Adds volumes to systems without adding

separate drive letters for each new volume

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