Thanks Dustin, I was going to reply with the same info but got called away before I could.
My drives average around 30MB/s so they are still faster than a T-100 net (10 MB/s). James > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dustin Puryear > Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 12:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] networking ignorance > > ----- 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 >
