On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:51 PM, Yeb Havinga <yebhavinga@gmail.com> wrote:
> With 24 drives it'll probably be the controller that is the limiting factor
> of bandwidth. Our HP SAN controller with 28 15K drives delivers 170MB/s at
> maximum with raid 0 and about 155MB/s with raid 1+0. So I'd go for the 10K
> drives and put the saved money towards the controller (or maybe more than
> one controller).
That's horrifically bad numbers for that many drives. I can get those
numbers for write performance on a RAID-6 on our office server. I
wonder what's making your SAN setup so slow?