[Discuss] Dev Ops - architecture (local not cloud)

[richard.pieri at gmail.com (Richard Pieri)]

I get 100MB/s sustained writes with desktop class disks and 80MB/s 
sustained writes with notebook disks (3Gb/s devices; I don't have any 
6Gb/s yet). Even a relatively slow SATA 1.5Gb/s disk should get you at 
least 50MB/s throughput.

GigE without jumbo frames caps at about 80MB/s sustained transfer. Jumbo 
frames offer up to a 50% throughput improvement for traffic like NFS so 
you're looking at up to 120MB/s sustained throughput. That will put you 
ahead of consumer grade local disk performance. You do need network 
infrastructure that supports GigE jumbo frames; most consumer grade 
equipment does not.

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Rich P.