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[bene-Gk2boCrsRs1AfugRpC6u6w at public.gmane.org (Ben Eisenbraun)]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 02:38:22PM -0500, Stephen Adler wrote:
> Something tells me that the port multiplexer will degrade the 
> performance of your disk array. Is this of any real concern?

Only you can decide that.  Is performance critical for your application?
What are your performance requirements?

But yes, multiple disks behind a port multiplier all share the same SATA
bandwidth.

-ben

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