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I am looking for any benchmark data regarding i/o performance gains when adding more drives to a raid 5 array. I see lots of comments that performance will increase, but looking for some idea of what to expect , ie if I double the drives will I double the i/o (assuming no bottlenecks elsewhere).
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I am looking for any benchmark data regarding i/o performance gains when adding more drives to a raid 5 array. I see lots of comments that performance will increase, but looking for some idea of what to expect , ie if I double the drives will I double the i/o (assuming no bottlenecks elsewhere).

Performance gain when adding drives to Raid 5?

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