Complete coverage of storage and RAID

This paper covers the whole research area surrounding RAID:
http://www.disi.unige.it/person/CiaccioG/arch_par/raid/chen94.pdf

Written by the original inventors of RAID, it gives a complete view of both the technology, the open issues, research problems, etc. Goes in-depth into how RAID works, how it can fail (there are many ways other than pure disk crashes!), etc.

Optimizing INSERT performance in DB2

Comprehensive link here
Talks about array processing, load from cursor, locking, etc, etc. There is a list of 80 odd tests that he has conducted to compare numbers!