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Originally Posted by rowan
My $45 80GB SATA HD can do sustained transfers of 40MB+ per sec
My VelociRaptor does 120MB+ per sec
Again, I don't see how RAID is relevant when it's the internet connection that is the limiting factor.
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WRONG
That?s a common misconception,,, with todays internet speeds both on the end user and the data center connects are plenty fast
Almost always the slow down occurs at the hardware level
This is why you see hosting companies selling dedicated machines with a ton of bandwidth? they know that the machines hardware limitations can only x amount of data per month due to hardware limitations ?. Not because of the pipe
A striped raid box reads bits of data from each drive ( kind of like a torrent ) this allows this allows the system to push more data in into the cache on to the bus to the ram to the cpu back to the ram out to the network at a faster rate
RAID striping improves performance in a way you will never understand until you try it