Oh, I am so jealous. That should yield about 3.07TB in RAID5!

I'd be tempted to try RAID6 with that many drives though, or at least reserving one as a hot spare. You'd still get about 2.79TB.

I take it that this is work-related and on someone-elses dollar. Can you tell us which sata card you're using?

Here's my bonnie++ test using 10GB logical volumes.
Code:

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Version  1.03                 ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                              -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine                  Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
genixia-ext2-4k         2049M 34531  82 74377  16 17483   5 23804  60 57312  10 436.0   1
genixia-ext3-4k         2049M 31148  75 68173  20 21928   6 28116  68 54798  10 364.1   1
genixia-jfs-4k          2049M 33759  82 70475  16 19181   5 23839  49 50013   9 466.9   1
genixia-reiser-4k       2049M 34656  78 67953  23 21457   6 24017  60 52841  11 417.0   0
genixia-xfs-4k          2049M 35217  81 72467  22 19437   6 24457  56 56003  10 431.5   1
genixia-ext3-4k-noatime 2049M 32251  75 60789  18 22492   7 28932  61 56562  11 388.6   0
                           ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                           -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
files:max:min               /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
genixia-ext2-4k         16  3815  99 +++++ +++ +++++ +++  3880  96 +++++ +++ 11239  99
genixia-ext3-4k         16  2809  98 +++++ +++ +++++ +++  2799  97 +++++ +++  6702  95
genixia-jfs-4k          16  1163   0 +++++ +++   546   0   511   0 +++++ +++   342   0
genixia-reiser-4k       16 23224  99 +++++ +++ 25527 100 22164 100 +++++ +++ 22071  98
genixia-xfs-4k          16  1353  14 +++++ +++  1381  11  1397  16 +++++ +++   579   6
genixia-ext3-4k-noatime 16  2791  99 +++++ +++ +++++ +++  2816  99 +++++ +++  6145  96
 

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