Chapter 6: Planning Storage Solutions

This chapter dealt with some of the more practical and day-to-day tasks of managing storage for users. I found the lab to be a little embarrassing in retrospect; I'm not using the drives on my home PC anywhere near as well as I could be. The lab also went faster than most, because I've already played around with some of the stuff it covers. The biggest thing that stood out to me about this time was the casual use of spanned volumes for the accounting department. That kind of made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. This fictional Contoso company is going to trust their finance files to a spanned volume involving multiple physical disks? Really? That's a little scary utterly terrifying. Hope they've got a really good backup scheme!