Quote Originally Posted by James View Post
There needs to be more focus in multithreading the storage back end. That's where the major problem lies.

If they used GPU type subprocessors for things like parity calculations, hardware RAID could actually be a performance contender. As it stands now, they are so far behind software RAID solutions it's not even funny.
Multithreaded storage is kind of Fusion IO's thing too. Their new PCIe 16x card has some kind of retarded bandwidth, like 4GB/s writes and 7GB/s reads.