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

[B0Ti <9915104t@example.com>]

On Thu, 02 May 2002 02:03:06 +0000
"Jean-Christian Imbeault" <jean_christian@example.com> wrote:

> 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.
Decent webservers have a few megs of memory for cache. It would be an overkill if the server had to access the HD for every http request.

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B0Ti