Originally posted by: pakigang
There are network cards that do 1Gbit & even 4Gbit & i think even 8 Gbit has been introduced for web servers.
My question is that 1 Gbit = 1000/8 = 125 MB/s apporximate, can be accomplished by pc when you HDD is ATA 150 which is also not used completely??
Originally posted by: TuxDave
Translation: Why is it so hard to get 1Gb/sec ethernet when we have harddrives that can easily accomplish that?
Originally posted by: AbsolutDealage
Originally posted by: TuxDave
Translation: Why is it so hard to get 1Gb/sec ethernet when we have harddrives that can easily accomplish that?
I think what he is getting at here is the opposite:
Translation: Why can we fill a 125MB/sec (500MB/sec, 1000MB/sec) ethernet pipe when we cannot even fill a 150 MB/sec pipe for a hard disk?
Originally posted by: pakigang
It seems that gigabit ethernet cannot be used to full potential, just half on the max on a desktop pc, if not then how is it accomplished??
Originally posted by: Concillian
Originally posted by: pakigang
It seems that gigabit ethernet cannot be used to full potential, just half on the max on a desktop pc, if not then how is it accomplished??
You're correct, it cannot be used to full potential on a desktop PC.
You do not have to use something to full potential for it to be beneficial.
When you use something to full potential suddenly it transforms into a bottleneck.
Originally posted by: Calin
A switch (as opposed to a hub) in a network will give to each computer the available bandwidth of the network (in the best case). The worst case (when every computer wants to transmit/receive to a certain other computer will share the total bandwidth of that certain computer to all the others that request it. And in some cases there can be network connections just between two computers (no switch, no hub)
Originally posted by: ahurtt
Originally posted by: Calin
A switch (as opposed to a hub) in a network will give to each computer the available bandwidth of the network (in the best case). The worst case (when every computer wants to transmit/receive to a certain other computer will share the total bandwidth of that certain computer to all the others that request it. And in some cases there can be network connections just between two computers (no switch, no hub)
And further to this point, not every device that has a network interface of some sort also contains a hard drive. Often dedicated switches, hubs, and routers are dedicated pieces of hardware that exist solely to handle networks and their traffic and contain no hard drives or other moving parts.
Not forgetting, of course, that a decent RAID array on a server would push 125Mb/sec easily.
Originally posted by: Kensai
I wouldn't mind having a 1Gb/s connection. Would help me download better. Also, everything depends on the barebone and specification. The specifictation of internet that we use today was developed over 10 years ago. That's why we're hitting such a bottleneck. I believe there's a chain of universities in the states that have set up a small version of the Internet spec 2.