"Thor Lancelot Simon" wrote in message
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In article ,
Will wrote:

I've seen various consumer SATA RAID arrays record write throughputs
around
30 to 60 MB/second, which implies that the individual drives rarely
deliver
more than 15 MB / second, and that would be for contiguous data.

I suppose if you're uninterested in the facts it implies that. A trivial
test will determine that for contiguous data even the cheapest modern
SATA drives write at about three to four times the rate you quote.

How are they doing this? They are striping data across four or more
platters?

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Will