Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 12:29:49PM -0400, Karl Wright wrote:
>
>> I checked the disk picture - this is a RAID disk array with 6 drives,
>> with a bit more than 1Tbyte total storage. 15,000 RPM. It would be
>> hard to get more/faster disk than that.
>>
>
> What kind of RAID? It's _easy_ to get faster disk that 6 drives in
> RAID5, even if they're 15,000 RPM. The rotation speed is the least
> of your problems in many RAID implementations.
Oh, and the driver rev means a lot too. Some older driver revisions for
some RAID cards are very slow.