“Didn’t know you could write to disk at 20G/second.”
Most computers can’t push their 100 mb (point-1 G) network connection to its limit for more than a few seconds — the hard drive isn’t fast enough.
Many newer computers have a 1G/sec network connection, but for the most part, no one notices any speed difference over their network from the previous point-1G/sec card. Assuming that the network card was 1G/sec, I’m wondering how this user knew she was getting all of that speed?
This story doesn’t make sense, another in a long line of superspeed stories by people who want the gov’t to help them run fiber to your house.
It’s fun to think about a full fiber connection, but you’re exactly right. Computers are no where close to being able to fully utilize a connection that fast.
Maybe (MAYBE) once we’re using crystal drives, quantum boards and bioware processors could we use fiber.
I’ve got a 4Mb (4 million bits = 500 thousand bytes, for you rio linda people) connection right now and I have to work really hard to even use that much at once.
Assuming the server providing the content could even dish it out at even 1/400th that speed.