Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!lobster!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: A3000UX - Born to run UNIX SVR4 Message-ID: <1991Feb12.210950.19547@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 12 Feb 91 21:09:50 GMT References: <1991Feb11.115100.1771@sugar.hackercorp.com> <9475@uwm.edu> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX Lines: 22 In article <9475@uwm.edu> gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes: > >> Come on, this is a kludge! SCSI isn't that fast. What about using > >> the NeXT as a fileserver? 4-5 megabytes per second xfer rate isn't > >> going to cut it. > > Over a 10 megabit/second net (that comes out to ~ 1 MB/sec)? I think that's > > quite fast enough. > You're kidding, right? Right now we have HARD DRIVES that can go faster than > that. True, but *ethernet* won't. In fact you are lucky if you get 30% of the peak capacity of an ethernet before collissions kill you. Or are you planning on running your fileserver using telepathy? Neither the Amiga nor the NeXT is going to be a good choice for an FDDI fileserver, but either of them are fast enough for a little old Ethernet. These are *workstations*, remember. If you're building up a fast network like that then deal the files off a *real* computer like a Sequent. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .