<<I obviously don't know of any interfaces capable of 300 GB [equiv to 2.4 Tb/s] throughput rates. The highest device I/Os I am aware of [in archive complexes] are capable of GbE and perhaps some OC-48c's (2.5 Gb/s), the latter variants not quite being ready for prime time, though, for the most part. In the future, we may see these and much higher speeds under a standard now being called "Future I/O." See:
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Yeah, but Frank as your above words show, we are talking about 3 orders of magnitude improvement here in I/O speeds and over 1 order of magnitude in storage capacity - not to mention bus or channel limitations that the file data also has to pass through.
The fastest way to move a FILE of this size across the country (not data packets) is still to put it (the tapes or whatever) on a plane and fly it over. I can't imagine any kind of server or mainframe technology capable of removing all those bottlenecks (so Silkroad can transmit it without waiting) in less than a decade. You would have to remove all physical moving parts on the I/O device, I think to reach those speeds. That laser cube technology (or something like it) that IBM (I think) or others have been working on for years would be needed - but even then the bus/channel limitations remain.
Remember, I'm talking about a FILE, stored somewhere, read, transmitted and written to another storage device - not moving the equivalent amount of data in IP packets. |
