jasonpel
Cruising At 5 Mbps
join:2003-02-17
Arlington, TX
| FireWire ok, Gigabit - Overkill
It seems to me that I've only transfered back and forth to my two computers of nearly identical hardware (Maxtor 80GB 7200rpm ATA-133 / SATA-150) a steady 30MB/sec read and write. I found this by using a FireWire (400Mbps) network. Seems to me like Gigabit for the home is a really big waste. I am going to be setting up a RAID and I will reply within a week if I get them in time the speeds which are read/writen over the FireWire. |
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wentlanc
You Can't Fix Dumb..
join:2003-07-30
Maineville, OH
| I have two Seagate 120 gig SATA-150 disks in a RAID 0 array. Guess what, you still cannot hardly touch gig. The biggest bottleneck with gig is the BUS speed of the machine. in fact, the most sure fire way to drive the CPU of a server up is to introduce gig-e. Gigabit, and 10 Gigabit ethernet has it's place. But the home most definitely is not it.
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nixen
Rockin' the Boxen
Premium
join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA
 ·Cox HSI
 ·Speakeasy
| said by wentlanc  :
I have two Seagate 120 gig SATA-150 disks in a RAID 0 array. Guess what, you still cannot hardly touch gig. The biggest bottleneck with gig is the BUS speed of the machine. in fact, the most sure fire way to drive the CPU of a server up is to introduce gig-e. Gigabit, and 10 Gigabit ethernet has it's place. But the home most definitely is not it.
puritan
You need 750MHz or more of CPU to max-drive Gig E. You also need a nice chunk of system board bandwidth and wide PCI bus. Even then, over a cross-over GibE link, you'll only get about 800Mbps.
-tom
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