One might wonder why, with SATA II disks spec'ed at 3 Gbps, I'm excited about a 2.8 Gbps RAID array. Drives generally can't sustain rates anywhere near what their interface runs at. The 10 drives in the RAID have a aggregate throughput of 30 Gbps, but that is needed to be guaranteed that >=2.8 Gbps can be played out continuously, for hours at a time.
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- mark 3-21-2008 8:03 am