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From: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
Subject: Re: recommended 4port SATA controller ?
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:05:30 +0000 (UTC)
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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:52:40 -0500, Matt Garman wrote:

> But, if, for example, you are serving the data strictly over the network
> (i.e. a NAS box), a single Gigabit ethernet connection tops out at
> rougly 125 MB/s.  So in this case the network performance would shadow
> the reduced performance of the drives on the PCI bus. (Unless your
> network controller is also on the PCI bus, then you're hosed!  It's
> always good to check the block diagram of the motherboard.)

Or unless you're using RAID5/6 with a write-intensive application. :-/