RAID controller question...

[Josip Loncaric]

Greg Lindahl wrote:
> 
> As usual, generalizations lead you astray. If you want to hook 10+
> drives to a machine and are seek limited, UIDE won't do it for you,
> even if your sustained bandwidth is much lower than 20 MB/s. Think
> database. Sure, that means you spend more money.

I thought that the idea of the original Beowulf was to use many
processors with a disk or two per CPU, with the goal of achieving bigher
aggregate bandwidth than the alternative configuration of many disks per
CPU.

Josip