13 Jun
1997
13 Jun
'97
1:33 a.m.
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, Dave Hitz wrote:
Although marketing certainly has input, the space restrictions also come from engineering droids. During normal operation the smaller machines could certainly handle more disk, but the time required for something like RAID reconstruction could get dangerously long.
Is this the reason why the F210 can still only use around 50GB ofdisk, even though it can physically accomodate more using 9GB drives?
In order for a RAID reconstruction to complete, you have to read all of the data on all of the other disks. So RAID reconstruction time is proportional the the amount of data, not proportional to the number of disks.
Dave Hitz hitz@netapp.com Network Appliance (408) 367-3106