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Last Updated: Dec 16, 2004

This featured topic, focusing on RAID issues, is sure to be helpful. Our editors have assembled 10 of the best and most current RAID questions your fellow users have asked our experts. See which ones made the grade.
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1. Hard numbers and performance figures

(03 Jul 2002)

The question here is the use of RAID (at any level) in the database environment. Expert Chris Poelker says "never throw hardware at a poor design as the return on investment is never as good as taking the time to rethink the original design." With that in mind, he gives us four steps to achieve good I/O performance.

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