On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Florian Lengyel <[email protected]> wrote: > However, a SAS drive can deliver 300 Mb/sec (theoretical); in practice > 270 Mb/sec > is more likely. I have neither the drive nor the server with the > disks, so I am guessing. > I imagine a RAID5 SAS disk configuration with at least 3 disks would > be suitable > for a holding disk with 2 LTO5 drives. Either that or a fully-loaded MD1000 > with > SATA drives.
Keep in mind that your SAS and LTO5 won't talk to one another directly, so all of that data will need to get into and out of RAM - hopefully via DMA, but still traversing PCI, SCSI, SAS, FC, RAID, etc. Dustin -- Open Source Storage Engineer http://www.zmanda.com
