From: "Robert Comer" 

> I suppose it's possible if you have more than one scsi channel being used.
> I've found that if the array is on a single channel it usually maxes out
the
> scsi bus at about 3 drives though.

Depends on your bus and your SCSI card.

The AS/400 likes more drives, the more, the faster it goes. I have 15
drives and I rarely get over 30% disk utilization at 68% capacity.


- Bob Comer


"Geo."  wrote in message
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> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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>
> > not used until a drive fails. By utilizing unallocated space on the
drives
> > in the array, a "virtual" hot spare is created. By
putting the hot spare
> to
> > work, performance improves because more "heads" are
writing the data.
>
> I suppose it's possible if you have more than one scsi channel being used.
> I've found that if the array is on a single channel it usually maxes out
the
> scsi bus at about 3 drives though.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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