| This chapter covered a lot of ground, including the following: Working with partitions and volumes This includes knowing the types of partitions available on a basic disk (primary, extended, and logical) and the types of volumes available on a dynamic disk (simple, spanned, mirrored, striped, and striped with parity). Know when and how to use them. Implementing a RAID solution This includes knowing how to configure, troubleshoot, and repair the various RAID configurations available in Windows Server 2003. Optimizing server disk performance This includes knowing which of the partitions/volumes provide the best performance and how to configure and maintain them. Defragmenting volumes and partitions This is part of maintaining and optimizing server disk performance.
Key Terms Boot disk Boot partition System partition Basic disk Dynamic disk Mirror volume RAID-0 RAID-1 RAID-5 BOOT.INI Extended partition Spanned volume Fault tolerant Defragmentation NTFS FAT32 Striped volume
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