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I have searched the archives, and the topic has been touched upon tangentally, but never directly. so, let’s get right down to it:
I have large files that I want to be able to open between two PCs on a home network using PS. I got a gigabit router and network cards, but that’s just not enough. People have suggested that the bus could be a bottleneck, or that the disk IO could be, or the OS itself. That all may very well be true. But, rather than asking how to solve my existing problem (please don’t do that!), what I really want is a simple description of the minimum hardware requirements necessary to seamlessly open a 50-100M file on either computer, and get at least the same performance as I would if I were to do the same operation on a single computer with a typical IDE 7200rpm local disk.
(The latter disk is not a component in the system; it is merely mentioned as a performance benchmark for acceptability for opening a file over the network. I would assume that local disk operations in the hypothetical configuration would be much faster than the network operation, of course. It’s just that I wanted to establish what the minimum performance requirement was for the networking part of it.)
The ONLY limitation is (and I cringe to high heaven when I say this), it has to be a Windows OS.
For academic reasons, I’m happy to entertain the argument that Mac’s OS X would be a better platform, but you can’t just say that: you have to list the necessary and relevant devices, and the minimum requirement to do so. Don’t make a dream system here.
I have large files that I want to be able to open between two PCs on a home network using PS. I got a gigabit router and network cards, but that’s just not enough. People have suggested that the bus could be a bottleneck, or that the disk IO could be, or the OS itself. That all may very well be true. But, rather than asking how to solve my existing problem (please don’t do that!), what I really want is a simple description of the minimum hardware requirements necessary to seamlessly open a 50-100M file on either computer, and get at least the same performance as I would if I were to do the same operation on a single computer with a typical IDE 7200rpm local disk.
(The latter disk is not a component in the system; it is merely mentioned as a performance benchmark for acceptability for opening a file over the network. I would assume that local disk operations in the hypothetical configuration would be much faster than the network operation, of course. It’s just that I wanted to establish what the minimum performance requirement was for the networking part of it.)
The ONLY limitation is (and I cringe to high heaven when I say this), it has to be a Windows OS.
For academic reasons, I’m happy to entertain the argument that Mac’s OS X would be a better platform, but you can’t just say that: you have to list the necessary and relevant devices, and the minimum requirement to do so. Don’t make a dream system here.
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