© james.thompson Have we jumped onto the SSD (solid-state disk) bandwagon too soon? An interesting article put out on Byte and Switch titled: "Tough Times Ahead for SSD Storage" takes a...
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© casey.marshall Do you get confused when talking data transfer rate. Do you want to compare disk drives, whether they be USB, Firewire, CD-ROM, SATA, or something else and can't relate them....
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© xfuture911 I'm not going to go into too much depth here as I have written a couple of papers a while back on this subject. Instead I would encourage you to download these two papers, read them,...
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© psd How do you know if the disks you will be using from ANY particular vendor can muster up the IOPS and MBPS required to satisfy your current or future workloads? Some simple calculations can help...
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© PPDIGITAL All too often I have seen basically two different methodologies when configuring Oracle on storage. The first is to use Oracle's Flexible Architecture (OFA) approach where architects...
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April 21, 2008 (Computerworld) Western Digital Corp. today launched the first model of its new 2.5-in. VelociRaptor VR 150 hard-drive product line, which company executives said offers about twice...
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© Naomi Ibuki Both IOPS and MBPS are standard benchmarking measurements when testing the speed of a storage device. IOPS-I/O Per Second is nothing more than the number of I/O operations I can perform...
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