On 11/12/05, Anthony DeRobertis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > Even on a fileserver it is becoming hard to have your network link > > outperform your disk IO unless you have a very good gigabit or better > > network link. Any single modern disk can saturate a 100Mbit link.
> This is not always true. If you have a lot of seeks (e.g., because > people are accessing hundreds of large files simultaneously) disks start > to become a bottleneck. In that case you really should be distributing your data over more places. For my networks, I perfer to use NA Storage to keep most of the I/O load off the CPU - plus I can then have many servers point to one drive without big hairy networking problems. Do I have a network like this? No... but that's the network I'm about to build for my devgroup. So, all that I just said is in theory - feel free to let the heavy hammer of experience drop straight down on me, since I probably need it. Oh, and this thread is - by now - officially Off-Topic. If someone really doesn't like all this OT traffic, tell me to shut up and I will. But until then I'm assuming that no-one really minds this *that* much.
