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From: adfas asd <chimera_god@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Remote NAS
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:40:23 -0700 (PDT)
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Interesting, thanks.

--- On Mon, 9/28/09, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@shaw.ca> wrote:
> > I am puzzled by why write-mostly.  Ostensibly Gb
> ethernet is supposed to
> >  nearly equal the data transfer rate of the
> controller cards, and be many
> >  times the speed of actual data transfer from the
> drives.
> > 
> > So shouldn't a NAS have plenty of bandwidth to
> accommodate most any drive
> >  operations?
> 
> My GbE lan gets about 90MiB/s, my pcie sata card has shown
> upwards of 
> 400MiB/s. I haven't done full tests on the sata card yet,
> but it clearly is 
> able to more than saturate a single GbE connection.