>-----Original Message----- >From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf >Of Christopher Chan >Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 3:45 PM >To: centos at centos.org >Subject: Re: [CentOS] 40TB File System Recommendations > >While we are at it, disks being directly connected to the raid card will >mean there won't be bus contention from nics and what not whereas >software raid 5/6 would have to deal with that. Could that really be an issue as well? What kind of traffic levels are we speaking of now? Approximately? That is to say, in as much this can be quantified at all. I've never really seen this problem. -- /Sorin