Alex Turner <armtuk(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> a 14 drive stripe will max out the PCI bus long before anything else,
Hopefully anyone with a 14 drive stripe is using some combination of 64 bit
PCI-X cards running at 66Mhz...
> the only reason for a stripe this size is to get a total accessible
> size up.
Well, many drives also cuts average latency. So even if you have no need for
more bandwidth you still benefit from a lower average response time by adding
more drives.
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greg