You must have some dog slow hard drives....... Be sure to keep you Mb and your MB straight when speaking of hard drive speeds.... I have an "older" (a couple of years old) Western Digital 7200RPM 30GB drive that I record and edit video on, and it gets around 26MBytes/sec throughput on read and around 24Mbytes/sec on writes. Virtually all modern IDE drive can easily top 100Mbps (12.5MBytes/sec).... any good drive made in the last couple of years (7200RPM) can usually read and write (sustained throughput) up to and over 25 to 30Mbytes/sec (200-240Mbps or more)..... And this is just a single drive.... if you have a server with RAID5 kicking, you could theoretically fully utilize 1Gbps, however, the bus in the PC (sever) usually become the bottleneck at that point (even the 64-bit PCI bus that most high end servers (even running at 66MHz) can only handle 512Mbps of throughput, so getting a full 1Gbps throughput from a PC is basically out of the question AFAIK).....
Mike W. "Rick" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Make sure your PC's are capable of transferring data faster > than this. There is not many hard drives that can do 100mb/s. > My laptop I am on now tops out at about 8.5mb but my PC > goes up to about 17mb. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=44345&t=44333 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
