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Answer the following questions about drive layouts in your own words.

a. Suppose you have four 4 TB disks. You could combine them and configure them as a spanned volume, a striped volume with parity, or a mirrored volume. If you had 14 TB worth of data files to store, which of the three layouts mentioned here could hold that amount of data? Which ones could not? Explain.

b. If you were setting up a two-disk storage system to backup your familys personal photos and videos, which of the three layouts would you choose? Explain why, in your own words.

c. Two ways to keep backups are to use a mirrored storage layout, or use a non-mirrored layout and make periodic backups of your data. Describe one benefit of using mirroring versus making backups, and then describe one benefit of making backups versus using mirroring.

3. Some organizations prefer to keep their data storage in the cloud using a cloud provider instead of keeping their data storage in-house. This is similar to you keeping your data on Google Drive or OneDrive instead of keeping your data on your computers SSD or flash drives.

a. Describe an advantage of using a cloud storage provider versus keeping your data in-house.

b. Describe an advantage of keeping your data in-house versus using a cloud provider.