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In the meantime, armed with the tools and materials covered in this work, the reader should be able to make better headway through the rough waters of disk management. Regular defragmentation will help keep systems stable and disks performing faster and with far fewer errors. Those who keep their disks free of fragmentation report that they experience far fewer crashes and disk failures on Windows. Disk quotas will help maintain order in the challenging world of storage and space management; where systems are constantly short of user space, quota tools can provide a means to predict consumption easily and plan for it. Disaster recovery planning and non-catastrophic contingency plans prepare users for whatever data loss situations they might face, small or large. And, most importantly, a thorough knowledge of the basics of hard disks, file systems, backups, and hard drive reliability provides enough understanding to properly manage an enterprise's disks and get the most out of its servers.

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