Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Adaptec (ADPT) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Doug who wrote (2384)	5/25/1998 9:19:00 PM
From: George Dawson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5944

Doug, Those are good points. I think the transition to FC has also been slowed by the fact that 1 Gbps was too fast for available storage until recently. Hennessy and Patterson's text on Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach - points out (p41) that from an I/O perspective the bandwidth decreases and the latency increases significantly with distance from the CPU. Until the bandwidth at the slowest device increased enough - you don't need FC. In fact until recently all of the big storage companies have been using SCSI to set storage records. George D.