FW: 20TB Storage System

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <ILENIMHFIPIBHJLCDEHKEEMIDCAA.max.clark at media.net>, "Max Clark" writ
es:
>I know adding ccd/vinum to the equation will lower my IO throughput, but the
>question is... if I have an external hardware shelf with 3.5TB (16 250GB
>drives w/ Raid 5 from hardware) and I put a Raid 0 stripe across 3 of these
>shelves what would my expected loss of IO be?

The loss will mostly be from latency, but how much is impossible to
tell I think.

The statistics of this, even with my trusty old Erlang table would
still be too uncertain to be of any value.

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