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I understand "stacked" that way that your current 4 switches with 16 ports each is logically one single 64 port switch. This means you have actually a star topology, giving the shortest and fastest way for every connection.
If you add a 24 port switch you will get a tree topology. You have the servers and the sub switches hooked to the root switch. This means all and every traffic must pass through the root switch and even the sub switches. I think this setup would probably decrease your network speed instead of increasing it.
As I can see it the backbone interconnection used to stack the switches are the bottleneck in your setup. what speed is used to interconnect / stack the switches?
Another question: Are you sure the switches / the network traffic is the bottleneck? Are you sure the servers aren't running out of resources?
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