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frongt@lemmy.zip 1 day agoNetwork? Nah, the bottleneck is always going to be the drive itself. Storage networks might pass absurd numbers of Gbps, but ideally you’d be resilvering from a drive on the same backplane, and SAS-4 tops out at 24 Gbps, but there’s no way you’re going to hit that write speed on a single drive. The fastest retail drives don’t do more than ~2 Gbps. Even the Seagate Mach.2 only does around twice that due to having two head actuators.
thejml@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
100%. But the post i was responding to was talking about recovering a failed array from other copies, not locally.