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    Micropolis Data Storage Primer: Micropolis Handbooks
    Micropolis Data Storage Primer: Micropolis Handbooks
    Micropolis Data Storage Primer: Micropolis Handbooks
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    Computer data storage is a diverse field, complex and constantly changing - and yet of utmost relevance in everyday IT. Getting started with the subject can be difficult: terms are unknown, concepts are only vaguely familiar, or technical abbreviations are difficult to decipher. What is NAS, what a SAN? Is there a difference between iSCSI and Fibre Channel? What is a file-system and how does it relate to Block Storage or Hybrid cloud storage?

     

    This Micropolis Handbooks publication is mainly written in the form of a technical terms glossary, meant as a quick-start guide on computer data storage. Short paragraphs per term summarize often complex matter to provide you with an overview of the field. Selected terms receive broader discussion in short articles. Several concepts are visualized in black and white illustrations. Organized like an encyclopedia, this basic reference book is a first primer on a fascinating and highly relevant topic of System Administration and Information Technology.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMicropolis Press
    Release dateJan 19, 2024
    ISBN9798224020287
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      Micropolis Data Storage Primer - Micropolis Handbooks

      Micropolis

      Data Storage Primer

      Micropolis Handbooks

      Micropolis Press

      Micropolis Data Storage Primer

      from the Micropolis Handbooks series

      First edition. Copyright © 2024 Micropolis

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      Micropolis

      www.micropolis.com

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      Published in the United States of America

      Cover illustration and illustrations copyright © 2024 Micropolis

      Book design, production and editing: Clipland GmbH

      [email protected]

      BISAC book classifications:

      COM052000 COMPUTERS / Reference

      COM030000 COMPUTERS / System Admin. / Storage & Retrieval

      COM032000 COMPUTERS / Information Technology

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      Micropolis Data Storage Primer

      Table of Contents

      Intro

      19-inch rack

      4K video

      5.25-Inch Floppy Disk

      AES-256-CCM

      AHCI

      Allocate-on-flush

      ACID properties

      Adler-32

      Air Gapping

      Active Directory (short AD)

      AFP (Apple Filing Protocol)

      ARIES

      Auto-Tiering

      ATA over Ethernet

      Authentication

      Bandwidth

      BeeGFS

      Bin Locking (in Video Editing Systems)

      Bit rot

      Block cipher

      Block Level

      Block Storage

      Btrfs

      Checksumming

      checksum algorithm

      Ceph (distributed parallel file system)

      CIFS

      Cloud Storage

      Cloning

      Cluster

      Clustered file system

      Cold Storage

      Coercivity

      Common Redundant Power Supply (CRPS)

      Content-addressable Storage

      Copy on Write

      Converged Ethernet

      CSP (Cloud Service Provider)

      Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC)

      Cylinder-Head-Sector

      Data Corruption

      Data Lake

      Data Lakehouse

      Deduplication

      DMZ

      Distributed file system

      Drive bay form-factors

      eCryptfs

      Edge Computing

      EncFS

      Edit while Capture

      EtherDrive

      Ethernet

      Erasure Coding

      Error correction code (ECC)

      eSATA

      ESDI

      ETL Process

      exFAT

      EXR (Extended Dynamic Range)

      Extent

      Extended file attributes

      FAT

      Fibre channel (FC)

      Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP)

      Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

      File Level storage (vs. block level storage)

      File System

      File Storage

      Fileserver

      Flash file system

      Floppy disk

      FTP

      File virtualization

      Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE)

      GIO

      Global file systems

      Gopher

      GPFS

      Grid file systems

      GVfs

      GSS (GPFS Storage Server)

      Hadoop (HDFS)

      Half-rack format

      HAMR drive

      HBA (Host Bus Adapter)

      HDD

      Hierarchical file system

      High availability (HA)

      Hot plug

      hybrid cloud

      HyperSCSI

      Interconnection models

      IPMI

      ISV Certified

      IOPS

      iSCSI

      IMF (Interoperable Master Format)

      iWARP

      JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks)

      Journaling file system

      LAN (Local Area Network)

      Latency

      LDAP

      Local Block Storage

      Log-structured file system

      LTFS (Linear Tape File System)

      LTO

      Lustre

      LUKS

      M.2 (NGFF)

      Massive array of idle drives (MAID)

      MAM (Media Asset Management)

      MAMR

      Managed Service Provider (MSP)

      What is a Media Defect Table?

      Metadata

      Metadata controller

      MFM Drive Interface

      Mirror

      mSATA (Mini-SATA)

      NAND flash memory

      NAS

      Nearline storage

      Network Switch

      NFS

      NLE (non-linear editing system)

      NTFS

      NVM Express (NVMe)

      NVM Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF)

      Object Storage

      OpenBMC

      Open Compute Project (OCP)

      OpenZFS

      Oracle ZFS

      Over provisioning

      Penta-Level Cell (PLC)

      Platter

      Pool

      Power-Up In Standby (PUIS)

      Project Sharing

      Proxy File

      POSIX

      POSIX compliance

      What are Professional Services in Storage?

      Quotas

      RAID

      RAID Levels

      Raidion

      RaptorQ code

      Rebuilding

      Redundancy

      Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA)

      Replication

      RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet)

      Router

      Rotational media

      SAN

      SAS

      SATA

      SATA Express (SATAe)

      Scale-Out

      Scale-Up

      Scatter/Gather

      SCSI

      Self-certifying file system

      Self-healing

      Semantic file system (SFS)

      Serial Storage Architecture (SSA)

      Shugart Interface

      SLOG

      Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR)

      SMB

      Snapshot

      Software-Defined Storage (SDS)

      SPDK (Storage Performance Development Kit)

      SSD

      SSD Hot-zone

      Staggered Spin-Up (SSU)

      StorNext File System (SNFS)

      Striping

      StripeGroup

      Storage Appliance

      sync write

      Read/Write-Head

      Redfish (Redfish Scalable Platforms Management API)

      What does SDS mean in a storage context?

      Sneakernet

      Software-defined Object Storage

      Storage Virtualization

      Tape Library

      TCO (total cost of ownership)

      Transactional file-system

      U.2

      U.3

      Virtual file system (VFS)

      WebDAV

      What are White Glove Services?

      Winchester Drive

      xattr

      XFS

      Zero-Copy

      Zettabyte Era

      ZFS

      More to read on Computer Data Storage

      About Micropolis

      Title Page

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Data Storage 19 inch Racks

      This text, mainly written in the form of a technical terms glossary, is meant as quick-start guide on computer data storage. Short paragraphs per term summarize, often complex, matter to provide you with an overview of the field, a first primer on this fascinating topic.

      19-inch rack

      A standardized frame or enclosure of 19 width for mounting multiple electronic equipment modules stacked over another on two parallel vertical rails. The front plate of one module measures 19 inches (482.60mm) wide, thus the name. The width of the front plate is 19 in total, including the screw terminal area, with 17.75 (450.85mm) clear area in-between vertical screwing rails (called rack opening"). One height

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