Physical Storage Elements - HP StoreEasy 1000 Administrator's Manual

Figure 41 Storage management process example

Physical storage elements

The lowest level of storage management occurs at the physical drive level. Choosing the best
physical disk configuration requires understanding the following:
Current corporate and departmental structure
Current file server structure and environment
Best configuration and use of storage
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Determine the desired priority of fault tolerance, performance, and storage capacity.
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Use the determined priority of system characteristics to determine the optimal striping
policy and RAID level.
Include the appropriate number of physical drives in the arrays to create logical storage
elements of desired sizes.
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