Best Practices
The following are best practices from this chapter:
• Use the Volume Shadow Copy Service to provide file recoverability and data fault tolerance to minimize the number of times you have to restore from backup.
• Try to provide disk fault tolerance for your operating system and data drives, preferably using hardware-based RAID sets, through the use of Windows fault-tolerant volumes or by deploying resilient mirrored or parity virtual disks on storage pools that include multiple physical disks.
• Use NTFS or reFS on all volumes to enable additional file system functionality and security. Only use NTFS on system drives and on drives that will leverage file classification and Dynamic Access Control.
• Always define share permissions ...
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