Don’t ignore storage tuning

Unlike other system resources, storage may optimize its performance as soon it gets sized. It can also be tuned when its usage gets analyzed.

For this, it is necessary to consider that the correct sizing depends on differentiating the measures used in the storage allocation process.

A very common mistake is to size with the wrong storage measurements, causing storage space to go unused or wasted.

The key point to consider is how disk manufacturers overcome the challenge of creating a device that lives in two worlds. A disk is a raw physical device with no virtual or data structures before creating a filesystem. A raw disk becomes a block disk structure when it gets formatted as a filesystem. Filesystems are binary structures.

This means that we must create a physical device, created under the physical rules of the real world, and turn it into a data structure in the digital world.

The International System of Units (SI) is the most widely...