I find it interesting that you went in a different direction than the earlier ideas discussed for this problem. I can see where this is simpler in many ways an

I find it interesting that you went in a different direction than the earlier ideas discussed for this problem. I can see where this is simpler in many ways and probably more importantly a better fit for a lot of content than some of those early ideas. You mentioned the overhead for handling many streams being a problem. Can you go into more detail on the type of overhead you saw and do you feel this is something can can be addressed with better drivers or some application changes? Or do you think the only solution is packing multiple stripes into a single stream using the encoding bit manipulation you mentioned? It seems a shame for hardware that can support more streams leaves them inaccessible to real world applications.