On 10/21/2013 2:21 AM, Andrew Holway wrote: > Remember that a single SATA harddrive has an approximate equivalent > performance of 1G ethernet. 100MB/s or so. A) I have a SATA3 3TB disk on my windows PC that is twice that fast on sequential IO B) these new servers are SAS2 with 15k hybrid drives, and use RAID cards with 2GB flash-backed cache -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast