[tlug] Slightly OT: HD transfer rates vs Internet access speed

["Jean-Christian Imbeault" <jean_christian@example.com>]

While reading the posts about building a 1U rack mount server I was 
wondering about hard disk speed and Internet connection access speed. (If 
this is pointless babble or completely OT just ignore ....)

Newer Mode 5 Ultra ATA EIDE drives offer a maximum data transfer rate of 100 
MB/s. This would seem to mean that for a web server it would be pointless to 
get an Internet connection faster than 100 MB/s since the server cannot 
possily read and provide data from the HD at a rate equal to the Internet 
connection.

And considering that 100 MB/s is the best possible transfer rate (not even 
taking into acount any CPU cycles that have to be burned by the web server 
to generate the web page), I would think that a single 100 MB/s line would 
be more than sufficient.

So for a single server setup there is not point in getting more than a 100 
MB/s line? Not being much of a HW person (or very good at math) can any 
correct me if I am wrong?

Jc


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