Key Terms
ACEs - an entry in an objects acl that grants permissions toa user or group
ACL - A collection of access control entries that defines the access that all users and groups have to an object
ATA - A disk interface that uses parallel communications to connect multiple hard drives to a computer
Authorization - The process of making sure someone is who they say they are
Basic Disk - The default disk type, it can have up to four partitions, three primary and one extended
Direct-attached Storage - a computer whith hard drives stored in it
Disk Duplexing - Method of fault tolerance, duplicate data is stored on two disks in seperate host adapters
Disk Mirroring - Method of fault tolerance, duplicate data is stored on two seperate disks
DiskPart.exe - Command line method to do all your disk related deeds
Dynamic Disk - Alternative to basic disk, able to have an unlimited number of volumes
Effective permissions - A combination of all the permissions from various sources
External Drive Array - Hard disks attached to a computer through a network medium
File System - A part of the OS for storing and organizing files
Folder redirection - A useful feature that lets users save thier files to a network location
LUNs - An identifier assigned to a specific component within a SCSI device which enables the SCSI host adapter to send commands to that component.
NAS - A dedicated file server that is connected to a network and provides users with file based storage
Offline Files - Lets people keep copies of files on their machines so that if the server goes down they can still work
Partition Style - The ways disks are organized in windows
RAID - Multiple disks working together as pals to do great things such as fault tolerance or increases to read/write speeds
SID - Every active directory object gets one of these, kinda like a social security number
Security Principal - Whoever is an administrator assigns permissions to
SATA - Newer