Appendix B: Bibliography

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The following is a brief list of various books and papers that cover some of the subjects covered in this work in far more detail.

Books

Anderson, D. T., The Hard Disk Technical Guide, Micro House, Boulder, CO, 1997.

Bigelow, S. J., Bigelow's Drive and Memory Troubleshooting, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2000.

Bodo, M., Hard Drive Bible, Corporate Systems Center, Santa Clara, CA, 1996.

Friedman, M. and Pentakolos, O., Windows 2000 Performance Guide, O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA, 2002.

Jensen, C., Fragmentation: The Condition, The Cause, The Cure, ESI, Burbank, CA, 1994.

Killelea, P., Web Performance Tuning, O'Reilly, Sebastopol, CA, 1998.

Massiglia, P., Highly Available Storage for Windows Servers, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2002.

Minasi, M., Mastering Windows XP Professional, Sybex, Alameda, CA, 2001.

Minasi, M.,Toombs, D.,Anderson, C., and Smith, B., Mastering Windows Server 2000, 4th ed., Sybex, Alameda, CA, 2002.

Press, B., PC Upgrade and Repair Bible, IDG Books, Foster City, CA, 1996.

Russell, C. and Crawford, S., Microsoft Windows 2000 Server Administrator's Companion, Vol. 1, Microsoft Press, Redmond, WA, 2000.

Simmons, C., Windows 2000 Hardware and Disk Management, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 2000.

Solomon, D. A. and Russinovich, M. E., Inside Windows 2000, 3rd ed., Microsoft Press, Redmond, WA, 2000.

Zaenglein, N., Disk Detective: Secrets You Must Know to Recover Information from a Computer, Paladin Enterprises, Boulder, CO, 1998.

Zobrist, G. W. and Ashar, K. G., Magnetic Disk Drive Technology: Heads, Media, Channel, Interfaces, and Integration, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 1996.

White Papers and Reports

American Megatrends, Inc., SMART Technology and SCSI Drives: A Look at AMI MegaRAID, SMART Drives and GUIs, 1999, http://www.genitech.com.au.

Comprehensive Consulting Solutions, Inc., Disaster Recovery Planning: An Overview; Disaster Recovery Planning: Process and Options; Avoiding Disaster: An Ounce of Prevention; Business Continuity Planning, 2001, http://www.comp-soln.com.

National Software Testing Lab (NSTL), Comparison Testing: Diskeeper vs. the Windows 2000 Disk Defragmenter, http://www.nstl.com; System Performance and File Fragmentation in Windows NT, 2002, http://www.execsoft.com; NSTL Benchmarks on Windows NT/2000/XP, 2002, http://www.execsoft.com.

Precise/W. Quinn Associates, Quota Management Technologies, 2000, http://www.wquinn.com.

Quantum Corporation, Hard Drives and Computer System Performance, 1999, http://www.quantum.com.

Seagate Technologies, Estimating Drive Reliability in Desktop Computers and Consumer Electronic Systems; Disc Drive Capacity and Performance; Get S.M.A.R.T. for Reliability, http://www.seagate.com.

XIOtech, A True Definition of Storage Virtualization, 2000, http://www.xiotech.com.

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