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Can I specify a different disk for a specific MySQL table?

I use my home machine as my personal database for my hobby analytics project. This machine has an SSD for the main drive where MySQL stores its data. It also has a secondary hard drive that is ...
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Extreme storage beasts

Intro I have derived this question from my previous question Single Drive vs Multiple Drives After getting a very detailed answer from a very helpful member RolandoMySQLDBA and learning the fact that ...
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Single Drive vs Multiple Drives

Generally bottleneck of RDBMS (I am a MySQL user) performance is disk access. SSD provides great performance compared with conventional spindle drives. Question : Is it possible to improve ...
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MySQL InnoDB data file directly on a disk slice (fixed-size)?

It seems that ibdata1 is like a disk slice. In Solaris (UNIX) UFS filesystems (the common one before ZFS), one would separate their disk c0t0d0 into slices, say a 10GB drive would be cut into three ...