Maybe EUGLUG should get a 60-day trial? :) About the rate though... DVD single-layer is "4.7" GB, that's giga bytes, right? And these are 10Gbps (gigabits per sec)... so of course it is very fast but hey I've only had one glass of scotch :) (and it doesn't math up rightly)
Were you talking about a dual-layer, and missing the bits/bytes there? ben PS - my calcs, first is seconds to xfer DVD (not accounting for protocol overheads either!), note the factor of 8 for bits/byte... lastly reducing the 2^30 (= 1024*1024*1024) for gigs, simplifying: bc 1.06 Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. For details type `warranty'. scale=4 (4.7*1024*1024*1024*8)/(10*1024*1024*1024) 3.7600 4.7*8/10 3.7600 On 2/21/07, larry price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://www.sun.com/products/networking/ethernet/10gigethernet/ I know I'm an utter geek when the prospect of building a system that would need these to connect to the outside world strikes me as a fascinating professional challenge. Plus, a heatsink on a NIC just looks cool. 10Ge means you could pump the entire contents of a DVD over the wire in less than 2 seconds.
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