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Short stroking may boost DB performance by 100%
Decreases seek time by forcing data to outer sectors. They were able to get significant performance gains
- lrajlich 18y agoTom's hardware forced all the data to the outer sectors of the hard drive. While this reduces capacity it also cuts down on seek time significantly, which would have a tremendous effect on hard drive performance in a database scenario. It appears they got >100% performance boost in database benchmarks with this technique. See this benchmark result: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/short-stroking-hdd,2157-7.html http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/short-stroking-hdd,2157-...
- wmf 18y agoIt may also boost your cost by 1000%. This is a relatively poor article; you can short-stroke without any special utilities by simply creating a smaller partition and they didn't test the Intel X25-E.