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Better performance -- RAID striping or concatenation?
Designing storage for performance is a very esoteric effort by nature. There are quite a few variables that need to be taken into account.

A quick and dirty way to increase a RAID 5 array
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.

The new breed of RAID controllers
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...

What can we do to optimize copying from a SAN to a regular RAID array?
Other than getting a new customer, you might try putting in a second RAID array with a new HBA to allow multiple data to be written to disk through multiple I/O paths. I wasn't clear whether the write-to-disk was the...

Tune for RAID performance
If you're looking to improve the performance of your RAID system, you have several factors to consider. Find out what they are and how to work with them.

Want better performance? Try a data plaid
A data plaid aims to improve disk access performance by making disk accesses to the physical disk drives more random.

Best Practices: Balance workloads with RAID types
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...

Storage basics: RAID striping in detail
How RAID striping improves performance and how parity fits in.

RAID configuration with three hard drives
Storage expert Greg Schulz discusses the possibility of configuring a RAID-1 with 3 total hard drives.

Decreasing I/O latency in RAID array
Greg Schulz offers troubleshooting advice for a reader looking to decrease I/O latency in a RAID-5 array.


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