http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Articles tagged SQL Server 2005, Performance Tuning, Hardware posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)The I/O system is important to the performance of SQL Server. When configuring a new server for SQL Server or when adding or modifying the disk configuration of an existing system, it is good practice to determine the capacity of the I/O subsystem prior to deploying SQL Server. This white paper discusses validating and determining the capacity of an I/O subsystem. A number of tools are available for performing this type of testing. This white paper focuses on the SQLIO.exe tool, but also compares all available tools. It also covers basic I/O configuration best practices for SQL Server 2005.http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/61747/2008/01/04http://www.sqlservercentral.com/redirect/articles/61747/