System Tools & Utilities

Best practicies to run Windows on Solid State Drive(s) (SSD) - a white paper that explores optimizations for running Windows XP and Windows Vista on SSD based systems. The paper also explores the behavior of Windows 7 on SSD based systems

 

HyperV Storage Deep Dive - a white paper that attempts to collect all relevant information from various blogs and presentations into one concise documents and also explores some issues that have been missed so far

 

NTFS and Thin Provisioning - a white paper that explores the state of the technology in thin provisioning and the finer points of using thin provisioning with NTFS

 

Windows Application Data/Meta Data Caching Best Practices  a white paper that explains best practices for Windows application writers to ensure their data is committed to media or cached as per the application needs

 

Best Practices To Avoid NTFS Defragmentation - a white paper that guides Windows application developers as to how to write their data while avoiding NTFS defragmentation