SAN Disk Performance size

We are looking to add an expansion Bay to our IBM DS3400 SAN.  Fully complete bays 12 disk with 300 GB SAS drives or SAS of 600GO drives and wondered what would be the difference in performance, if any, of the differences in read/write because of the size of the readers.    There is probably a hot spare, leaving 11 discs as a RAID5 configuration.

Any input or thoughts would help considerably, thank you

-Kyle

«"RParker wrote: I guess I was mistaken, everything CAN be virtualized"»

Hey Kyle,.

There was a discussion way back to what was good enough.

Good luck!

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