> So, it is possible that you can get significantly faster disk IO from such a > solution. At last year's MS NA TechEd, several vendors where showing > Windows 2012 Storage Clusters which had Disk IO throughput of 5 *GBytes* > per second!!!
A clarification/correction.
The actual numbers were
512KB block size = 5792 MB/sec or 11,565 IO/s
8KB block size = 2683 MB/sec or ***343,388 IO/s***
Sean
