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1. Comment - New Internet Data Speeds Set

   (Apr 25, 2007 - 4:44 PM)

   Your ethernet card can handle 10, 100, or 1000 gigabits ? You must be some kind of alien then !
   
   Network cards can handle 10, 100, or 1000 megabits. 1000 megabits would be 1 gigabit, which is still far from 10 gigabits.
   
   Your SATA II interface has a theoretical limit of 300 mbps. Which is far also from your gigabit speeds. Even if you had a RAID setup, I doubt any home user could easily handle 1 gbps.
   
   So yeah, this speeds are way above anything you'll have at home anytime soon.
   
   EDIT:
   dizzy_davidh:
   Why did you delete your post ? =)
   
   jrizznit:
   you are right... SATA II is actually 3 gbps... but still... a Raptor WD740 can only write at about 75 MB/s (600mbps)... there's no such thing as an aditional 2 bytes when transfering a byte over a network tho... a byte is always 8 bits... there's the network overhead, but you can't just assume it'll be 2 bits per byte...
   
   If RAID 0 didn't'have any overhead, in theory, you would need more then 15 Raptor drives together to handle all that data. And you could do it for about 15 minutes, before they got full.