> So, it is possible that you can get significantly faster disk IO from such a
> solution. At last year's MS NA TechEd, several vendors where showing
> Windows 2012 Storage Clusters which had Disk IO throughput of 5 *GBytes*
> per second!!!

A clarification/correction.

The actual numbers were

512KB block size = 5792 MB/sec or 11,565 IO/s

8KB block size = 2683 MB/sec or ***343,388 IO/s***


Sean