Alex Turner <armtuk@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -- greg - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
