Don't know -- I'm more than a bit behind the hardware curve.
Did searches on SATA and competing standards of hard drive connection, and I got SATA (2.6) @ 300 MB/second and SCSI-U640 @ 640 MB/second. Just standards, not products.
Sadly, getting the raw throughput stats on HDD doesn't seem to be something that manufacturers push out as easy to get. So I can't tell if SATA's 300 MB/second will be saturated by 3 Raid5 drives.
All of this is based off of the question: how heavy duty a system does EQEmu take? My initial suspicion would be that a very low-end system, by todays standards, with maybe an unusually large amount of ram would be more than enough to run a server, given that EQEmu servers have been around for multiple iterations of moore's law: but I just don't know.
And the bandwidth seems important: how much bandwidth does each single player, playing actively, use?
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