30 Apr
2002
30 Apr
'02
9:13 p.m.
opposed to a 3 disk volume, but surprisingly we didn't see a substantial increase when we went to 14 disks in a volume.
So have any of you been able to test and justify using 14 disks as opposed to 7 disks in a volume?
Art,
Was the 14-disk setup all one RAID group or was it two 7-disk RAID groups? I believe you'd want two 7-disk RAID groups, however 16MB/sec writes on a F760 is probably typical.
You might examine the configuration Netapp uses in their Spec tests (http://www.spec.org).
/Brian/
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