On Nov 12, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places for 10G Ethernet adapters? When I > look around, I see ... 1G adapters for $10. And 10G adapters for $500. > > Even if the 10G adapters were ... say ... $90... I would happily just buy > it. But when we're talking $1000 just to connect computer A to computer B > via crossover cable, I think we're getting pretty crazy.
I'm confused. How much did your servers cost? How much do your VMware licenses cost? How much do you make in a week? How much of your time is it worth to get enhanced speeds between the two systems? What is the marginal additional cost of adding cheap 10gigE NICs to both ends? Is saving $900 really that critical to you, compared to the extra bandwidth and throughput you'd get? I mean, we're not talking about the max speed TOE cards that can actually keep up with 4gFC on real-world loads, we're talking about the el-cheapo NICs that are only very slightly better than the crap that many vendors now include out-of-the-box on their motherboards. Honestly, however much it may piss you off that you would be paying 50x the money for what will almost certainly be much less than 10x the performance, in the long run how much real money is that compared to your total budget for the project? -- Brad Knowles <[email protected]> LinkedIn Profile: <http://tinyurl.com/y8kpxu> _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
