Which description correctly defines a volume in storage?

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Which description correctly defines a volume in storage?

In storage, a volume is a logical container that holds data and is created within a storage pool. It provides space that can be formatted with a file system for host access or presented as a block device (a LUN) to servers. The volume abstracts the physical disks in the pool into a manageable unit you can allocate, resize, and use to host data. This differs from a physical rack of disks (hardware hardware), a temporary cache used to speed up I/O (cache), or a network address used to identify a device (IP/management address).

In storage, a volume is a logical container that holds data and is created within a storage pool. It provides space that can be formatted with a file system for host access or presented as a block device (a LUN) to servers. The volume abstracts the physical disks in the pool into a manageable unit you can allocate, resize, and use to host data. This differs from a physical rack of disks (hardware hardware), a temporary cache used to speed up I/O (cache), or a network address used to identify a device (IP/management address).

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