<p>What RAID level are they using?</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 2011-01-22 11:28 AM, "William Muriithi" <<a href="mailto:william.muriithi-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">william.muriithi@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> Hello pals,<br>> <br>> A workmate and I had an argument that we could not seem to agree on<br>
> yesterday. That mean we did not learn anything from the discussion and<br>> I would like to hear your opinion on it. It could help make sense of<br>> each other arguments<br>> <br>> Which of these two systems would have a better input output<br>
> performance? Both system have the same configurations, CPU, chipset<br>> everything down the power supply. They differ though with the number<br>> of hard disk. Both system has a RAID card with a maximum speed of 6<br>
> GB per sec<br>> <br>> System A has 6 drives. Each drive has a specification of 1500 RPM,<br>> 300 GB size SAS interface.<br>> <br>> System B has 8 drives. Each drive is 146GB in size, 1500 RPM and also<br>
> with a SAS interface.<br>> <br>> SAS interface can comfortably handle 3 GB per second.<br>> <br>> So, in your opinion, is the RAID card a potential bottleneck on both systems?<br>> <br>> Which of the two system would offer a better throughput ?<br>
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