Question

Think Critically 5-2: Using Advanced File and Storage Features (Part 1)

You're the IT administrator for CSM Tech Publishing. You've just had a meeting with the general manager about some data storage problems the company has been having. He has identified several problems.

First, there is a database application that has been exhibiting poor performance caused by latency from the drives it uses for storage. The storage system uses Storage Spaces and consists of four 1 TB HDDs. You have been asked to see what you can do to improve the performance of the storage used by the database application. You have a limited budget for the project—certainly not enough for a new server but probably enough for some new components. What hardware components do you recommend be added to help address this hardware problem?

Answer 1

In the above situation for increasing the performance of storage, SSD(Solid State Drives) can be used.

SDD is very faster by low read-access times and fast throughputs.

SSD is having a high power-efficient than the HDD.

SSD offers very high-speed reading and writing than the HDD and its reliability is very high. All server types including cloud servers are supporting SDD.

SSD uses a simple memory chip called NAND flash memory instead of magnetic platters. Therefore SSD is comparable to RAM.

So SSD is the hardware component that can give good performance for the server.