Here are some random notes I took during a presentation to Storage IO Performance this morning:
- SSDs: Still not a ‘solid state’ business – http://bit.ly/cdqA1b – “False expectations” and why they “won’t replace hard drives”
- A PRAM and NAND Flash Hybrid Architecture for High-Performance Embedded Storage Subsystems – http://bit.ly/95ZY83
- Resistive RAM Gains Ground – Faith in phase-change memory falters (IEEE Specturm) – http://bit.ly/cBpLB7
- SQL Server Best Practices Article – Predeployment I/O – http://bit.ly/9iybIa (great 2007 white paper on SQL storage)
- Disk Subsystem Performance Analysis for Windows – from 2004, but still very interesting – http://bit.ly/b2uXU1
- Design Tradeoffs for SSD Performance (from Usenix08) – http://bit.ly/9NjDGp
- Resource Monitor shows disk activity per process. In Windows 7, run resmon.exe and go to the “Disk” tab. http://bit.ly/c3jETW
- XPerf – Windows Performance Toolkit – http://bit.ly/aFQqvm – Invest the time to understand ETW and XPerf. It will pay off.
- Two-minute Introduction to XPerf – http://bit.ly/dApsVU
- Reducing Disk I/O Performance Sensitivity for Large Numbers of Sequential Streams – http://bit.ly/9gfWFL
- TANSTAAFL – There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TANSTAAFL (also applies to IO perf)
- Know your storage path – from the app to the platter – Drivers, device property configuration, hardware configuration
Enjoy…
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