Reply #18: maybe I am misunderstanding your terms... [View All]

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but a simple Cisco Catalyst 6 series switch can pass (at max scalability) 256Gbps across its backplane. The SCSI interface and the fibre channel interface are MUCH slower than that...and that interface can carry more data than can be offloaded from the platters. You start working into carrier class switches you are easily into the Tb range. So I can still move data through my network faster than you can put it onto or take it off a disk...

And, just a note...solid state disks are available already. Haven't read much about them...but they are out there.

sP