28 Jan
2000
28 Jan
'00
5:19 p.m.
On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Jason Middlebrooks wrote:
So on a F760 I can have 56 32GB drives on one fibre loop? Is any performance lost here?
I think this number is correct, but I'd rather have you hear it from a NetApp person. Besides, I though they were 36GB drives. As per performance, of course, there is bus arbitration overhead to start. Also you're talking about putting in huge drives, which maximum input/output is still about the same as the smaller drives. Drive performance hasn't improved all that much while capacity has increased significantly.
Tom