"Nik Simpson" wrote in
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Ok... "stripe size"... So in a RAID array of 5 disks with a stripe
size of 8k, if I submit a request to the RAID controller to write
5,000 bytes, these bytes will not be scattered equally across all
drives? Since the size of the data being written is less than the
stripe size, all of the data could conceivably written to one disk?

You nailed it. Stripe size is the minimum size of a write to a
physical disk in the array. Trying allocate evenly at the byte level
to each disk would be insane in terms of the effect on performance.

Unless you're using RAID3 where the stripe size is basically one bit

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/Jesper Monsted