On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 06:49:07AM -0800, nate wrote:
Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
Have you paid attention to this? How big is the difference nowadays? Or I wonder if it was just on some specific product..
Depends on the product, my blog mentions a new product that draws less power on 10GbaseT vs fiber.
As for latency I'm sure it's a bit more, but for most applications are you really going to be able to tell a difference? I can understand if your doing stuff like RDMA, but for normal networking, NFS, iSCSI, virtualization etc, I really can't imagine anyone being able to tell a difference, especially for those currently running 1GbE.
Exactly. Gigabit ethernet is already enough for many systems today, and even there the bottleneck is often the disks, not the network.
The latency on my storage systems is measured in milliseconds not microseconds..
Yep. It might be only important for RDMA stuff.
The biggest knock to 10GbaseT was it was late to the 10GbE party.
Then again 10G isn't very widely deployed yet (in the datacenter), so 10GBaseT will definitely have a place for it.
-- Pasi