  Moving data from CERN to Pasadena at a gigabyte per second using the next
generation Internet requires good networking and good disk IO. Ten Gbps
Ethernet and OC192 links are in place, so now it is simply a matter of
programming. This report describes our preliminary work and measurements in
configuring the disk subsystem for this effort. Using 24 SATA disks at each
endpoint we are able to locally read and write an NTFS volume is striped across
24 disks at 1.2 GBps. A 32-disk stripe delivers 1.7 GBps. Experiments on higher
performance and higher-capacity systems deliver up to 3.5 GBps.

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