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15 April 2010 21:00

1 Million IOPS

As a keen follower of storage performance I couldn't help but be drawn to this article in The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/14/lsi_million_iops/ this morning. I gave my 5 year old laptop a new lease of life with a SSD and in combination...
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21 October 2009 22:57

When does 2+2 != 4 ?

Disclaimer: Results and observations are from a specific series of tests using sql 2008 enterprise on windows 2008 enterprise. I've been working on a series of benchmarking tests for an application with the aim of showing scaling of the storage for...
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04 May 2009 19:53

Storage – The Final Frontier

This is the presentation for the UK SSUG that I gave the other night. The link below is a pdf of all the slides and the script / notes that I wrote to go with each slide.  I’ve not edited this for style or anything – this is as I worked out what...
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26 February 2009 22:16

Thin Provisioning and ntfs

I'm currently working on a SQL Server storage project and as part of that I'm touching a number of areas that may be of interest to the DBA. The IT industry is full of buzz words, new fads, fashionable terms and so on; and Thin Provisioning was...
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