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

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