----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Bendily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 9:38 AM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] networking ignorance
> > I can't see you needing to spend the money on the kind of hardware you'd > > need to achieve this. > > I'd have to agree with this statement. > > One bottleneck you didn't think of is the speed of your workstations. > Your hard drives probably won't be able to write data any faster than > the 100MB speed any way. So 1000MB may be useless. Keep in mind that network numbers are usually in Mbit/s while storage numbers are in MB/s. So a gigabit switch running at 1000 Mbit/s is running at 125 MB/s.
