Re: RAID and Ultra66

[AndInc]

Hmm,

If the controller is built right, there is some potential for a performance 
increase.  The idea is to have more than one drive simultaneously reading 
into it's buffer (they run about .5M these days).  Assuming each drive stays 
busy, ie, as would be the case in large sequential transfers, it is possible 
to produce a rate at the host that approaches the combined rate of the 
drives.  Same theory holds for SCSI, or Fibre Channel, for that matter.

Mike Anderson