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Local storage: partitions, filesystems and volume management
Partitions, LVM volumes, filesystems: the layers of a local disk and the resize order.
Storage
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Storage and shares on Windows Server: volumes, SMB and permissions
SMB shares and NTFS permissions: how a disk becomes a volume and who can reach it.
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HDD, SSD and NVMe: media, interfaces and the three numbers of storage performance
IOPS, throughput and latency: how the medium and the interface decide which one binds.
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RAID: what redundancy buys, and what it does not
What a RAID level buys in availability, capacity and write cost — and where it stops.