In my last blog entry, I talked about VLDBs. One of the tactics suggested was to use as many data files on as many drives as possible to give better I/O performance. This makes sense, but the usual ...
I'm trying to decide how best to use a pair of 4TB external USB3 disks in my file server. At this point I've pulled one of the disks from it's enclosure and installed it in the file server. Now I'm ...
Hey guys, I'm replacing a file server and the SSD DWPD calculation sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole. Basically, without having to consider all the extraneous details, on a RAID6 array of 20 drives, ...