Re: Newbie storage questions... (RAID5, SANs, SCSI)

> Here comes the term "stripe size".
> This is the number of consequtive bytes allocated on the same disc.
> Depending on your performance requirement you will chose a small or large
> stripe size. (8k-64k or even much larger)
>

Ha! Just when I think I'm beginning to get a handle on things, a new
term/concept comes along that reveals just how ignorant I really was (am).
:)

Ok... "stripe size"... So in a RAID array of 5 disks with a stripe size of
8k, if I submit a request to the RAID controller to write 5,000 bytes, these
bytes will not be scattered equally across all drives? Since the size of the
data being written is less than the stripe size, all of the data could
conceivably written to one disk?