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It is probably possible to get "ok" performance *if* you can get the admins to actually pay attention and get beyond the perfunctory "everything is fine on our end" auto-responder. (Just as it is possible to get vmware to perform ok if someone pays serious attention to the configuration.) No external or shared storage device is *ever* going to be as effective as internal storage. 1 nanosecond per foot is the law of the land and always will be. Furthermore every layer of logic that you insert along that path is additional microseconds (or worse) of latency. If you really need high performance you are fundamentally on the wrong path if you implement on an external device. And you double your trouble if it is shared. Can it be "good enough" for most people/applications? Possibly. But it rarely comes that way out of the box and if you really need the absolute best performance then, no, this kind of solution is not appropriate.
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