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Glossary
Storport
The Storport driver has been designed to replace SCSIport and work with
Windows 2003 and beyond. In addition, it offers better performance for storage
controllers, providing higher I/O throughput rates, improved manageability, and
an upgraded miniport interface.
Stripe Element
A stripe element is the portion of a stripe that resides on a single physical disk.
Striping
Disk striping writes data across all physical disks in a virtual disk. Each stripe
consists of consecutive virtual disk data addresses that are mapped in fixed-size
units to each physical disk in the virtual disk using a sequential pattern.
For example, if the virtual disk includes five physical disks, the stripe writes data
to physical disks one through five without repeating any of the physical disks.
The amount of space consumed by a stripe is the same on each physical disk.
The portion of a stripe that resides on a physical disk is a stripe element.
Striping by itself does not provide data redundancy.
W
Windows
Microsoft Windows is a range of commercial operating environments for
computers. It provides a graphical user interface (GUI) to access programs and
data on the computer.
X
XP
XP is a Microsoft Windows operating system. Released in 2001, it is built on the
Windows 2000 kernel, making it more stable and reliable than previous versions
of Windows. It includes an improved user interface and more mobility features,
such as plug and play features used to connect to wireless networks.
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