Differences between a fully functional and an impaired array (with one of the four drives down) are more dram
atic on sequential-access tests, where overhead from recalculating missing data takes its toll. The early LTX firmware I tested (in OLTP, not Multimedia configuration) did not implement a read-ahead cache, which Micropolis plans to add. As a result, the array did worse on this test with sequential I/O than a single hard drive (one of the Micropolis 2217 drives used in the array).
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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