Hey Guys,
I'm trying to determine how many network cards I want to use for link aggregation on a switch. The number of gigabit network cards I need depends on the speed of my RAID 5 Array. Question is, what is the formula for Array performance to determine how many network cards I should use in 802.3ad. The Cheetah 15k.7 maxs at about 204MB/s. With RAID 5 if I had 4 drives I guess you could say I really only have 3 in the case of read/write. I could say that gives about 612MB/s and I need 5 gigabit cards (4.7Gb/s). Thoughts? Is there a formula?
I'm trying to determine how many network cards I want to use for link aggregation on a switch. The number of gigabit network cards I need depends on the speed of my RAID 5 Array. Question is, what is the formula for Array performance to determine how many network cards I should use in 802.3ad. The Cheetah 15k.7 maxs at about 204MB/s. With RAID 5 if I had 4 drives I guess you could say I really only have 3 in the case of read/write. I could say that gives about 612MB/s and I need 5 gigabit cards (4.7Gb/s). Thoughts? Is there a formula?