[Discuss] Adventures in N40L Land

[Richard Pieri]

On 2/14/2012 11:32 AM, Bill Bogstad wrote:
> Reason?   Also, do you mean actual physical geometry or the lies that
> all drives seem to give now?  (Which from what I've seen on a random
> collection of drives seem to all be the same anyway.)

Unbalanced disks generate unbalanced I/O loads which the RAID system may 
not be able handle properly.  This can cause the RAID controller to 
fault good disks that aren't keeping up with the faster-performing disks 
in the set.

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Rich P.