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Database Administration
Maintaining and Monitoring Your Database : Managing Performance : Server performance factors : Disk I/O
 
Disk I/O
Because reading and writing data to disk is a relatively slow operation, disk I/O is a common database performance bottleneck. The database engine performs three primary types of I/O operations:
*Database I/O
*Before-image I/O
*After-image I/O (relevant only if after-imaging is enabled)
If performance monitoring indicates that I/O resources are overloaded, try the techniques in the following sections to better balance disk I/O.
The best way to reduce disk I/O bottlenecks is to spread I/O across several physical disks, allowing multiple disk accesses to occur concurrently. You can extend files across many disk volumes or file systems.