18 Jun
2008
18 Jun
'08
17:49
On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 06:11 -0400, Matt Archer wrote:
Ethernet is pitifully slow compared to the disk I/O of any modern computer.
This is why, despite the claims of Dell and others, file-servers can EASILY be bottom-of-the-barrel machines, and buying a top-end motherboard and CPU for that purpose is just plain wasteful and stupid.
Most sata's i come across are 60MB/s some 80MB/s, With raid-5 i've seen 100MB/s Still not enough to saturate a single GB eth-channel, let alone a number of bonded interface. Real fast scsi-drives are just some gigs.. (Or do you still use thinwire, 10B2, without proper line-terminators ;-) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org