Did you just take a bath in oil?
You have gone to a great deal of trouble to NOT answer the question.
Can you move a file from a 6,1 onto an external drive 3 times faster by using 3 TB channels or not?
But that's your specific question and has little or nothing to do with the topic I was speaking to. So it's like I say there is a dragster that can do 200mph and you wanna know if I can legally drive on a public road that fast? What?
Why use a 60 Gb/s figure if nobody will ever see more than 20 Gb/s during a file move?
Well, now you're getting closer! Because reads from the 6GB/s volume can feed applications like 4K video editors and/or process (load/save/generate thumbnails) 36mpx RAW images from the D800 at break-neck speeds and/or feed 10 to 30 layers of 1080 video into your compositing application or video editor with ease and/or backup multiple terabytes from one stripe set to another lickety-split and/or screen-grab multiple monitor 4K video without any significant slowdown, etc. etc.
Such stripes also dramatically increase small file I/O (like 4K and etc.) so if you place your OS and apps on one of them your mac will start up in like 3 seconds or something ridiculous. PS will load and open 20 large images in 2 seconds (arbitrary example).
Additionally if you use such a stripe as system or application cache then all of that is dramatically sped up as well.
It's extremely useful to have fast volumes available! I would have thought you of all folks knew this very well. You can ask any content creator or digital artist and they'll tell you the same things. Why do you think so many people use RAID0 stripes in the MP1,1 2,1 3,1 ,4,1 and 5,1? It's awesome bro! Useful!
I seriously doubt users will spend much time file copying from the internal SSD to one of these arrays. That's not what it's for.
This reminds me of a G4 DP system I saw on Craigslist. The guy said it was 2.4 Ghz. He came to this number by saying there were 2 CPUs both running at 1.2 Gh/z, therefore he had a 2.4 Ghz G4.
I don't think it applies to CPUs anymore than you can claim 60 Gb/s for RAID speed by saying you can run three of them at 20 Gb/s.
If you actually answer the question instead of endlessly finding new ways to NOT answer, I'll let it drop.
Well CPU is a little different. Some apps use only one CPU at a time - so the core speed it very important to specify. With storage I/O the potential speed is always available. With a CPU only a few programs (such as render engines) use all cores at full speed - for those apps it would be OK to say "this machine has 2.4GHz of horsepower".
Anyway, I don't mind if you let it drop or not. You should keep at it until you understand it. Understanding should be your desired result. Personally I doubt I would create a stripe set of 12 SSD drives across three TB controllers unless they became a LOT cheaper! Probably I would like to have two stripe sets: one on a single controller capable of about 2GB/s and one which spans two controllers capable of about 4GB/s. Of course SSDs are still too price prohibitive for me at this point but I guess that will change by this time next year. <shrug>