I’ve already explained that no, it doesn’t make your database server more reliable – and in fact, it’s the exact opposite. But what about performance?
The answer is going to depend on your hardware and workload, but let’s work through an example. I’ll take the first lab workload from the Mastering Server Tuning class and set it up on an AWS i3en.2xlarge VM, which has 8 cores, 64GB RAM, and two 2.5TB NVMe SSDs. (This was one of the cheapest SQL-friendly VM types with two SSDs, but of course there are any number of ways you could run a test