The disk subsystem used by Meridian should be as fast as possible. Third-party programs and Windows itself support compressing folder contents to save disk space. However, software disk compression adds overhead to the server CPUs that will reduce Meridian performance.
Overall bad performance can result if vault database files or streams are stored on a disk or in folders with software disk compression enabled or stored on a logical disk created with Windows disk striping (software RAID).
For best performance, do not use software compression of any kind on any of the Meridian database or streams folders, and do not locate the BC-Meridian Vaults folder on a Windows striped volume (software RAID).
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Understanding the effects of software data encryption
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