Storage Needs

• Storage Types By Hardware or Topology:
  • Disk Storage
  • Shared Disk Storage:
    • Network Attached storage
    • Storage Area Networks
  • Blob Storage
• Storage Types By Usecases
  • Disk
  • Network File Shares
  • Database
  • Data Lakes
  • Backup

Some important storage concepts

• Unit of Storage
  • kilobyte vs kibi byte (kb vs kib)
• Speed of Disk:
  • IOPS (IO per second)
  • Throughput
• Disk Types:
  • Magnetic
  • HDD
  • SSD
• Durability
• High Availability
• Scalable