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From: Scott Mcdermott <smcdermott@questra.com>
Subject: Re: Questions about VERY large software raid config
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 10:56:02 -0500
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Rechenberg, Andrew on Fri 21/02 10:42 -0500:
> Basically I'm going to do a bunch of RAID1 mirrors (56 drives), RAID)
> those in sets of 14 and then stripe those 4 into one big array.

I'm curious, why aren't you doing a RAID0 stripe of 28 RAID1s instead?
It sounds like you are doing a RAID0 stripe of 4 RAID0 stripes of 14
RAID1s.  Why the extra step, it can only slow you down???