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On 10/27/10 13:19, David Wolfskill wrote:

>> note 2x drop in performance between outer and inner tracks.
> 
> OK, but I'm not sure how that's likely to work for a multi-spindle RAID
> 0 group....

Unless the RAID controller is trying to be overly smart (i.e. plays with
fire) by somehow alternating stripe positions on drives, exactly the
same as with single drives - stripe 0 on drive one will be logically
joined with stripe 0 on the other drive, etc.