Dell H200 manual Smart

SMART

Acronym for Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology.

The self-monitoring analysis and reporting technology (SMART) feature monitors the internal performance of all motors, heads, and drive electronics to detect predictable drive failures. This feature helps monitor drive performance and reliability, and protects the data on the drive. When problems are detected on a drive, you can replace or repair the drive without losing any data. SMART-compliant disks have attributes for which data (values) can be monitored to identify changes in values and determine whether the values are within threshold limits. Many mechanical failures and some electrical failures display some degradation in performance before failure.

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.

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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.

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