On 9 Oct 2002 at 16:48, Craig Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speed is also becoming an issue now with Adaptec 2400A IDE RAID becoming > a very inexpensive way to speed up drive access. Many of my design > client regularly deal with 50MB+ files, and three or four active > designers will saturate a 100BaseT card and switch. The example I gave > of Terminal Services is valid, as we support many offices with 20+ > people, and the required bandwidth for those people can be extremely > high. > I recently built an SME server with an Adaptec 2100S SCSI RAID controller configured to talk to a 70Gb RAID5 array for a similar environment. As you say, network bandwidth saturation is a big problem. I solved mine by using a Netgear GA622 gigabit adapter talking to a managed 2 port gigabit / 24 port 100 switch. Real world results are very impressive - reads seem to max out at around 500mb/s - the disk array is probably the bottleneck now. The server has now been up without a single glitch for nearly 3 months.
Gigabit is now coming down to price levels where this sort of performance is achievable at a (relatively) sensible cost. -- Nick Ramsay Witzend Computer Services http://www.witzendcs.co.uk/ -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
