Hi, We're attempting to get the specifications for the holding disk of an AMANDA server with 6GB SAS controllers that will be connected to an LTO5 drive.
We want to know whether 7200 RPM SATA drives would be sufficiently fast for the holding disk (this will be a separate RAID unit), or do we need faster SAS drives to prevent shoe-shining? Do we need to know I/O throughput figures for the whole system to answer this question? How have systems of users on the list avoided the show-shining problem? Thanks, Florian
