Comments on: When is fast, fast enough? http://storageadvisors.adaptec.com/2005/11/03/when-is-fast-fast-enough/ Storage Solutions for Real World IT Professionals Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:14:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on When is fast, fast enough? by: Jon Toigo http://storageadvisors.adaptec.com/2005/11/03/when-is-fast-fast-enough/#comment-56 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:34:37 +0000 http://storageadvisors.adaptec.com/2005/11/03/when-is-fast-fast-enough/#comment-56 Don't you love it when someone asks you how much bandwidth/throughput SCSI requires! I get this a lot, especially when talking about iSCSI. iSCSI is touted as the operation of SCSI as an application across a TCP/IP network. Kind of like IP storage, but not really. And it leads naturally to the question above. When do you think that folks will realize that SCSI doesn't require any particular throughput or bandwidth, it's the applications that require performance and that should guide product selection and sizing? Don’t you love it when someone asks you how much bandwidth/throughput SCSI requires!

I get this a lot, especially when talking about iSCSI. iSCSI is touted as the operation of SCSI as an application across a TCP/IP network. Kind of like IP storage, but not really. And it leads naturally to the question above.

When do you think that folks will realize that SCSI doesn’t require any particular throughput or bandwidth, it’s the applications that require performance and that should guide product selection and sizing?

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