Database is a critical and on demand resource in any IT infrastructure. Database administrators and developers deploy mission critical databases for different applications. However the underlying disk drives where the database is kept, also plays a major role in the overall performance of a database system.
Some databases are heavy in its read operations than write, and some are heavy in write operation than read. Although a well configured RAID disk array fits well for these operations, its advisable to test the performance of a partition/disk drive after its made available to the operating system.
