[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Speed up Index Rebuild

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> All are on a SAN with SSD storage (I know, local storage would be much better, but we can't get that right now). I'm glad to hear that the message is getting at least partway through. But just in case anyone is thinking that the difference is some smallish percentage -- it is not. Operations that take hours (or DAYS) on SAN storage (including "all flash SAN") will take minutes (or *seconds*) if you are able to replace the SAN with internal storage. This is not a small difference. Sure, not everybody needs that kind of performance. Sure, there are plenty of applications where a few hours for a backup or an index rebuild are no big deal. But if spending hours, or days, waiting for this stuff matters to your business the #1 thing that you can do to improve the performance of those tasks is to get off SAN storage and onto internal storage. It is also less expensive.

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