You mean this is all marketing hype?!? I assumed 1000MB ethernet meant 10 times faster than 100MB...
wow. guess I should pay attention to the fine print... :) --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- 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. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
