Hardware
SQL Server Can Run Databases from Network Shares & NAS
Automated Tiered Storage for Databases
Iomega StorCenter PX4-300d NAS Review: iSCSI Monster
How to Buy Your First Mac
SAN Snapshot Smackdown
Fusion-IO ioDrive Review
How to Make a Dell PowerEdge Quieter
SQL University: Scary Storage Scenarios
In the final part of my SQL University serries, I talk about the nightmares of storage: why things change when we’re not looking and why virtualization makes it harder to keep an eye on things.
SQL University: Where We Store Stuff
In part 2 of this series, I cover magnetic hard drives, solid state drives, and RAID arrays. I explain the pros and cons of each, and I discuss their relative speeds.
SQL University: The Basics of Storage
In part 1 of a multi-part series, I talk about what SQL Server stores, why your data and transaction files are usually best kept on separate drive arrays, and why cache doesn’t always help.
SAN Multipathing Part 2: What Multipathing Does
Storage Area Networks (SANs) can do multipathing, but what does that really mean? I explain the differences between failover and performance load balancing, and talk about why active/active multipathing isn’t what it seems.
SAN Multipathing Part 1: What are Paths?
In the beginning, God made drives directly attached to our computers. Over time, man decided to get jiggy with it and use Storage Area Networks. Learn why pathing is so important to these two systems.