Fastest Possible HD Speeds

[lagdawg]

Is there currently any harddrives or a way to set them up with a raid system that would be able to to transfer 1.5 Terabytes of data at speed of 3.33 Gbps over an OC192 Backbone. I know the OC192 backbone could handle speeds of upto 9.88 Gbps, but is there any possible hd configuration that could support these speeds for a large amount of data?

[psych-major]

Get out your checkbook. What you're looking for is Solid State Disk... It can handle 3GB/sec transfer rates.

[lagdawg]

They do have more than enough bandwith 3GB/s. But as far as network transfer speed I thought they could only go 2Gb/s

Fibre Channels: 2 Gb (2 to 8 ports)

[IsaacKuo]

Whoah, he's only asking for 3.3Gbps, not a whopping 3GB/s!

Let's see...3.3billion divided by 8...that's about 400megabytes per second. Psych-major's RAID of 3 old hard disks managed 36megabytes per second, but they're old and slow. Hmm...maybe a RAID array of 30 hard drives or less could do it?

The problem is getting hardware capable of handling that sort of bandwidth. Anything remotely related to a PCI bus, USB2.0, or Firewire is right out.

I can see that the problem isn't the hard drives, it's all of the OTHER hardware.

[psych-major]

That's correct, per channel, if you have two channels between the host and the drive array, then you can realize the 3GB/sec of the drives.

Also, 4GB/sec fibre cards coming out soon.

[psych-major]

Per my last post, he could still get what he wants from a single fibre card at 2GB/sec, or even 3 iSCSI channels at 1Gb/sec per channel.

This thread is getting very case-sensitive!!

[leonpmu]

This thread is getting very case-sensitive!!

LOL it IS after all, a Linux forum