[Bioclusters] Nomenclature (was Re: Call for information.)

[Goran Ceric]

MBytes of course. Most of my drives are 10k Cheetahs. The manufacturer 
lists these as 38.4-63.9 MB/s formatted, 5.1 ms access time. I am usually 
getting between 51-55 MB/s read/write. This will also depend on the kernel 
you're using. Some of them are better than the others. As far as the 
effective networking speed goes, I am getting 92 Mb/s on eepro100 cards and 
~800 Mb/s on eepro1000 fiber cards through a GB switch using one of the 
simple benchmarks such as ttcp. I don't know anything about IDE disks and 
IDE arrays since I am not using them. 

> Hi Goran, hi all,
> 
> could you please clarify:
> 
> 50-60 MBytes/s or 50-60 Mbits/s?
> 
> 50-60 MBytes/s would give 400-500 Mbits/s, so that would mean that a 
> Gigabit connection could increase the throughput by a factor of 4-5, in
>  an ideal world, correct?
> 
> What is the situation for an IDE RAID array?
> 
> Is there any hope to get a 1-TB fileserver for less than $10^4 that 
> gives I/O speeds > 1 Gbit/s?  Chris?  Others?
> 
> Best regards, Ivo