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A single 200GB EFD divided by 8 gives you a 25GB hyper size

(8 hypers per disk is sweet spot for performance for 8 core
directors).
Taking the hyper size of 25G and multiplying by the RAID
data disk count of 3 (there are 3 data drives in a R5 3+1) gives
you 75GB Data Device size.
Taking the disc count for the EFD pool divided by the disk
count of the RAID config (3+1 is 4 in this case) multiplied by
hypers gives you the number of data devices required to
maximize utilization of the pool. For a pool with 32 EFD
drives (sweet spot for 4 engine config with 8 cores per
director) it would be 32/4 * 8 = 64 data devices.

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75G Hypers when using 8 hypers per disk
225G Data Device size using same formula as above
In 128 Drive Pool the formula, same as above, is: 128/4*8 =
256 data devices

SATA 2TB RAID-6 (6+2) with 64 disks

Since max hyper size is 240G and the goal is capacity and
protection we need to adjust hyper by dividing 240 by the
data disk count of 6 for a RAID 6 (6+2) = 40G hyper
40G*6 = 240G data device size
2000G disk divided by 40G gives us capacity of 50 hypers per
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64/8*50 = 400 data device count

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Since RAID-1 goal is performance go ahead and use 240G

hypers at 8 hypers per disk and forfeit a small amount of
capacity (80G)
240*1 = 240G data device size
192/2*8 = 768 data device count

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