Robin Hill [off-list ref] writes:

I doubt this would help much really.  If you're reading sequential data
then it's pretty much as quick to keep reading as to seek to the next
chunk.

Only if your stripe size is smaller than your bandwidth x seek time.
Break even stripe size for 100MB/s 10ms disks would be 1 MB, so it
might work well with 4-10 MB stripes provided the IO stack is up to it?

Erno