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March 14th, 2013 20:00

TDEV is a host addressable device, striped meta device provides additional performance benefits from front-end processing perspective. There were some discussions around this topic on this forum.

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March 15th, 2013 01:00

As a general rule of thumb I make anything over 100gb a meta.  In my unscientific tests that is where my sweet spot for performance was.

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March 15th, 2013 10:00

Thanks dynamox...but if you pls dont mind can you explain in detail...i am really confues because as if a device is just pointers towards data in TDATs then how will a strip of a pointer help...

i know i am missing some point but dont know what ...

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March 15th, 2013 10:00

A single logical device can only have 8 outstanding reads per slice per device (read: tdev on FA slice) so when you have a meta thin single tdev it will have less outstanding read request potential than a stripped meta - which means your random read performance will be impacted.

In addition a meta device will have a higher write pending limit than a single device - which can, if you ever get near your wp limit, have a benefit.

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