[estefan]

IIRC there are various tricks you used to have to perform to get it to strip across different disks in the backend. Something along the lines of allocating 20% of your storage and then increasing it 5 times until you had what you wanted. If you provisioned a server immediately to full capacity you'd end up with your data too close together which degraded performance.

That's something I heard that used to be true but not sure whether it's still required with upgrades to S3 over the years...

[dhd415]

Interesting, I've never heard of striping tricks like that. Do you have any links on that? And I suppose that could be applicable to EBS since it rather than S3 is the backing store for RDS.

[estefan]

Sorry I don't have links. But yes, I think it was primarily to improve the performance of EBS, not S3 (been a while since I had to work on that sort of thing).