From: "Geo." 

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:4055075e$1{at}w3.nls.net...

> 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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