Re: RAID

[Anthony DeRobertis <anthony@derobert.net>]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> Even on a fileserver it is becoming hard to have your network link
> outperform your disk IO unless you have a very good gigabit or better
> network link.  Any single modern disk can saturate a 100Mbit link.

This is not always true. If you have a lot of seeks (e.g., because
people are accessing hundreds of large files simultaneously) disks start
to become a bottleneck.