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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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laid out as a two-way mirror. Rather than limit your new space to a 3-TB

capacity, you can assign whatever capacity you want, such as 12 TB, because

you know your movie collection will grow. When you start to reach the

capacity of the physical drives in the pool, Storage Spaces will tell you and

enable you to add more physical capacity at that time. Thin provisioning

means you don’t have to redo an array or space when you reach the limits of

current hardware.

NOTE SSDs work great with some space types and not others. With a

simple two-way or three-way mirror, go for it. You’ll add some speed and

lots of resiliency. With parity spaces, on the other hand, the nature of how

SSDs function inside might cause premature failure. It’s best to use HDDs

with parity spaces.

Maintaining and Troubleshooting Hard Drives

Hard drives are complex mechanical and electrical devices. With platters

spinning at thousands of rotations per minute, they also generate heat and

vibration. All of these factors make hard drives susceptible to failure. In this

section, you will learn some basic maintenance tasks that will keep your hard

drives healthy, and for those inevitable instances when a hard drive fails, you

will also learn what you can do to repair them.

NOTE The “Maintaining and Troubleshooting Hard Drives” section

applies primarily to HDDs, not SSDs. The few parts that apply to the latter

have been salted into the discussion.

Pay attention to the terminology used both on the CompTIA A+ exam and

in the field. Current storage for drives focuses on blocks and logical block

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