Mileage will vary on this. The most interesting part of the announcement to me is that the link speed increase is only part of the story. There seem to be other changes in the adapter and elsewhere that improve performance, both with and without activating the link speed boost.
Another thing to keep in mind is that Solid State Disk (SSD) is shipping from all the major enterprise storage vendors, and its costs continue to decline. One presumes SSD has even more "interesting" characteristics when it comes to I/O performance and link speeds. Same with device-side compression, which is changing things from the past. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
