On 21 October 2013 12:57, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [ ... ] > >> Remember that a single SATA harddrive has an approximate equivalent >> performance of 1G ethernet. 100MB/s or so. > > [... ] > >> Andrew > > In the area of virtualization it is IOPS what counts, not sequential > read/write. And in terms of IOPS SATA drives are the worst option as > storage backend. Indeed. however I was just illustrating an example. People often don't realise how slow Gbit Ethernet actually is. > > Alexander > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos