
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011, Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> wrote:
Correct, but we need to be able to move data faster b/w disks -- restores can take too long with most of the disks we have today, bring on the faster storage ASAP.... do I hear "racetrack ;-)" or fast and cheap SSDs. Yeah, back on that point, we'll have 10GE cards one day as normal instead of just GE -- another one for Russell to pick over ;-)
It seems to me that the main benefit that most home users received from GigE over 100baseT was the fact that crossover cables are no longer needed. Most corporations don't receive any benefit, even bloated MS-Office documents can be loaded fast enough on 100baseT. Sales of GigE Ethernet cards never became popular. GigE became commonly used on the desktop when it became a standard motherboard feature. I expect that when 10GigE becomes popular on the desktop it will be because it's integrated into motherboard chipsets. So it won't be an issue of buying a SATA3 capable motherboard now to support 10GigE because people who want it will just buy a motherboard that has it. If you want faster restores then just use the fastest 1/3 of each disk. With 3TB disks that's quite a viable option. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/