From a technical point of view, storage technologies represent a broad topic that an entire book could be written about. A disk is considered to be one of the server's core hardware components. This and many other components show how important these technologies are in the computer world. With that being said, this chapter is designed to give you a brief understanding of storage technologies and related topics.
You will learn about physical interfaces and disk controllers, how data is stored in a storage medium, storage system types that are used in network environments, various storage concepts and protocols such as data deduplication (dedup), Storage Spaces Direct (S2D), software-defined storage (SDS), Small Computer System Interface (SCSI), Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI), Fibre Channel (FC), Fibre Channel over...
