[Info-vax] DE500 and hardware version

[Paul Sture]

In article <ako4edFu68oU1 at mid.individual.net>,
 billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:

> In article <nospam-D1E663.13595504012013 at news.chingola.ch>,
> 	Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> > In article <kc6gav$252$1 at online.de>,
> >  helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) 
> >  wrote:
> > 
> >> In article <nospam-82F7A9.12110404012013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
> >> <nospam at sture.ch> writes: 
> >> 
> >> > I was looking to upgrade my home network to Gigabit ethernet just over a 
> >> > year ago and was surprised how much kit in the marketplace was still 
> >> > 10/100.  Basically unless Gigabit or 1000 was somewhere in the product 
> >> > name or prominent in the description, 10/100 was what you would be 
> >> > getting.
> >> 
> >> Well, consider that the typical home user doesn't run a LAN-based VMS 
> >> cluster.  :-|  
> > 
> > Not a VMS cluster, but every PC sold in the last few years (3-4 years?) 
> > has come with GbE, and there are a lot of NAS and media streaming 
> > devices on the market.
> 
> And just what is the speed of the bus that GbE is sitting on?

I haven't a clue, but where USB 2.0 disks are in use, in my experience 
they are the limiting factor rather than GbE.

-- 
Paul Sture