Switch vs. Router?

[moredruid]

lemme see

first let's check disk write performance:

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dd if=/dev/zero count=2000000 of=zerofile.bin 2000000+0 records in 2000000+0 records out 1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 15.7361 s, 43.1 MB/s

oh wait, I'm unrarring 3 ISO's over the network

check again:

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dd if=/dev/zero count=2000000 of=zerofile.bin 2000000+0 records in 2000000+0 records out 1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 15.7361 s, 77.6 MB/s

ftp winxp client from hda: get zerofile.bin
1GB transfer is done in about 20 seconds translating to ~50MB/s

ftp imac to hda: get zerofile.bin
1024000000 bytes received in 00:18 (52.07 MB/s)
scp imac from hda: scp me@hda:/var/hda/files/zerofile.bin .
zerofile.bin 100% 977MB 39.1MB/s 00:25

whoa around 10MB/s overhead for encryption.

I'll reboot to linux on my desktop (now winxp) and post the results of that as well.
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Linux results
scp desktop from hda: scp me@hda:/var/hda/files/zerofile.bin .
zerofile.bin 100% 977MB 39.3MB/s 00:25
ftp desktop to hda: get zerofile.bin
1024000000 bytes received in 14.7 secs (68.04 MB/s)

personally I think a higher speed should be possible, however the link is usually not saturated by only 1 connection (you need to tweak some kernel parameters for that to happen), which is a good thing.

[rampage537]

Man I need to get a better hard drive for my OS

This is my old 60GB IDE that has my OS on it

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[root@home ~]# dd if=/dev/zero count=2000000 of=zerofile.bin 2000000+0 records in 2000000+0 records out 1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 82.781 s, 12.4 MB/s

This is the new 1TB SATA drive, what a difference

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[root@home files]# dd if=/dev/zero count=2000000 of=zerofile.bin 2000000+0 records in 2000000+0 records out 1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 11.9445 s, 85.7 MB/s

I will get the speed results later from each of the computers and post those.