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Comments in italics are mine and express my own views, thoughts and opinions

Windows Internals by M. Russinovich, D. Solomon and A. Ionescu:

The distinction between class, port and miniport components in storage stack (pp. 646 - 647)

Example: disk.sys as a class driver, ataport.sys and atapi.sys as port and miniport drivers (pp. 647 - 448)

MPIO (multi path I/O), DSM (device-specific modules) and storage stack (pp. 649 - 650)

Old and new naming convention (DRX) for disk device objects (p. 650)

Win32 API disk drive naming (p. 651)

Partition device objects (p. 652)

Volume manager as a bus driver (p. 655)

System vs. boot volume (p. 660)

Volmgr.sys vs. Volmgrx.sys (p. 661)

The advantages of storing volume metadata in a file (p. 662)

Spanned, striped (RAID-0), mirrored (RAID-1), RAID-5 (striped with rotated parity) (pp. 662 - 667) 

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