Storage Management Strategies for the CIO
Storage Boosting RAID performance:
RAID
Boosting RAID performance
Learn how you can get the most out of RAID in this section.
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Best Practices: Balance workloads with RAID types
Feature - Vendors will tell you how beautifully parity-based RAID works in their storage subsystems, making it almost unnecessary to use any type of striped/mirrored RAID protection. But if you don't match the workload profile of the application to how storage is...
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Storage basics: RAID striping in detail
Tip - How RAID striping improves performance and how parity fits in.
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RAID configuration with three hard drives
Ask the Expert - Storage expert Greg Schulz discusses the possibility of configuring a RAID-1 with 3 total hard drives.
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Decreasing I/O latency in RAID array
Ask the Expert - Greg Schulz offers troubleshooting advice for a reader looking to decrease I/O latency in a RAID-5 array.
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How many disk drives do you need for RAID 10?
Ask the Expert - What is the minimum number of disk drives you can have in a RAID 10 array? I have read you must have at least four, but our server admin said it is HP's default, and he can do it on just two drives. This is on a Window Server 2003 with a total of four 72...
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RAID striping or concatenation: Which has better RAID performance?
Tip - Designing storage for performance can be difficult, but these tips from our expert will help you compare RAID striping or concatenation based on RAID performance.
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Better performance -- RAID striping or concatenation?
Tip - Designing storage for performance is a very esoteric effort by nature. There are quite a few variables that need to be taken into account.
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The new breed of RAID controllers
02 Dec 2005
Article - Whether you're selecting a RAID controller for a PC or Unix server, choosing a controller for a home-grown NAS box, or evaluating the controllers in a midrange or low-end array, or building your own NAS, you have to consider several features of the card:
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A quick and dirty way to increase a RAID 5 array
Tip - You can quickly and easily increase the storage capacity of a RAID 5 array in Windows by using RAID 5's redundancy to sequentially add larger disks.
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What can we do to optimize copying from a SAN to a regular RAID array?
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