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Fiber channel anyone?

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rblalock
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‎07-18-2006 01:44 PM
‎07-18-2006 01:44 PM

Fiber channel anyone?

Anyone using fiber channel disk arrays? Just wondering if the cost is worth any performance gains for loading AutoCAD files. Our network is pretty fast (gigabit) but I'm wondering of the users would see much of a difference with load times with 'all other things being equal' being served off fiber with a 10Gb backbone switch.

- Richard
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TravisNave
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‎07-18-2006 03:32 PM
‎07-18-2006 03:32 PM

Ha, AutoCAD runs so slowly on even the best workstations, I'd hardly think you'd notice the difference on network speed. If AutoCAD can find a bottleneck, it will exploit it. 😉

Sounds impressive though.


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rblalock
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‎07-19-2006 05:19 AM
‎07-19-2006 05:19 AM

If you think it's slow now, try running it on a 286. I came across some old numbers I had kept, 8m40s to load and 1m43s to redraw a 750kb drawing. Better display drivers/cards (Panacea, Nth Engine, etc.) and virtual disks made it less painful.

I think we get reasonable performance now, just looking at adding storage and wondering if fiber would be worth the cost. I guess once 10gb gets reasonable to the desktop then it would be more effective, of course then 100gb will be around the bend.

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