Whitepaper on Predeployment I/O Best Practices, plus a few urban legends around SQL Server IO

There's a new whitepaper on TechNet that I've just come across (even though it was published 6 months ago!) called Predeployment I/O Best Practices . It's really good - discussing the following: Guidelines for determining I/O capacity Disk configuration best practices and common pitfalls Using SQLIO to determine capacity and interpreting its results Using System Monitor to monitor an IO subsystem You can read it here and I've added a link to our whitepapers page. While I'm on the subject of I/O,...(<a href="http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/2008/01/10/WhitepaperOnPredeploymentIOBestPracticesPlusAFewUrbanLegendsAroundSQLServerIO.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://sqlserver-qa.net/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3162" width="1" height="1">