In this chapter we discussed the following:
- Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA), also known as Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE), is a legacy interface that is used to connect hard disk drives, optical disc drives, floppy disk drives, and related storage technologies to computers
- The two most popular types of ATA interfaces are Parallel ATA and Serial ATA
- The Small Computer System Interface (SCSI), pronounced scuzzy, is another interface that connects storage devices and peripheral devices to computers
- Direct-attached storage (DAS) is a group of disks that are directly connected to computers or servers
- Network-attached storage (NAS) is a network appliance that connects to computers and servers through the switch and acts as a dedicated storage in an organization's network
- A storage area network (SAN), like DAS and NAS, is a storage technology
- File-level storage...