20TB Storage System (fsck????)

[Piotr KUCHARSKI]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 02:37:50PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote:
> I'm wary of the write-performance hit from putting too many drives wide 
> in a RAID-5 (or -5,0) configuration. 

How many is "too many"? Or, rather, what are write-performance penalties
when using sixteen disks in one hw raid5 set? (With two raid volumes,
2TB and 1.75TB available for OS.)

p.

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