Disk Organization and Disk Management

Windows NT offers a number of disk management techniques that you can use to organize and safeguard data on your disks:

• You can choose how many physical disks and logical disk partitions your system will have. You can also choose whether you want to use volume sets or stripe sets to organize data across partitions.
• You can choose from among several fault-tolerance options to ensure data reliability on your system.
• You can employ other data backup and recovery techniques, such as tape backups and use of uninterruptible power supplies, to further safeguard against data loss.

The remainder of this chapter discusses using these techniques to improve disk performance and to ensure data reliability and security.