Index_H

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H

Hard drive

access time for, 10

advanced technology attachment storage interface for, 5–6, 222, 224

advances in, 222–223

backup of, See Backups

basic disks, 39

cache of, 5

capacity increases, 223–226

clusters of, 8–9

controller of, 5

crash of, 27, 71–72

cylinders of, 7

data transfer increases, 222–223

evaluation of, 12–13

extents of, 9

failure of, See Hard drive failure

forensic investigation of, See Computer forensics

formatting of, 10–11, 38–39

grouping of, 11–12

hardware components of, 1–5

head–actuator assembly, 4

high-performance, 3

initialization of, 38

interface standards, 5–7

logic board of, 4–5

logical, 11

mean time between failures, 13, 25–27

monitoring of

description of, 29–30

OEM tools for, 34–35

partitioning of, 11, 22–23, 99

performance definitions and metrics, 9–10

platters of, 2–3

RAID, 11–12

redundancy of, 56

rotational latency of, 9–10, 12

sectors of, 7–8

self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology for, 30–34

slowing of, 93–94

small computer system interface for, 5–7

spindle/motor, 3–4

spinning speed of, 3

stripe sets, 11

tracks of, 7

vibration concerns, 3–4

volume creation, 39

Hard drive failure

annualized rate of, 26

backup prevention for, 27–28

costs of, 27–28

fragmentation and, 73

frequency of, 32–33

inevitability of, 36

mean time between failures, 13, 25–27

predicting of, 29–30

RAID for, 28–29

Hard quota, 104

Hardware upgrades, 88–91

Head–actuator assembly, 4

Hewlett-Packard ProLiant DL7602G, 145–146

High Performance File System, 18

High-level formatting, 11

Horizontal scaling, 140–141

Host bus adapters, 127

Hot swapability, 35

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