[Eug-lug] Sexiest Piece of networking gear you'll see all week

[Ben Barrett]

Oh, 8cm, how odd.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvd


On 2/21/07, larry price <laprice at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I was basing it on 2.6GB capacity (DVD/RW) and get
> 2.6 gigabytes =3D 20.8 gigabits
>
> so ~2 seconds is roughly right.
>
> depending on your definitions.
>
> On 2/21/07, Ben Barrett <stircrazyben at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Maybe EUGLUG should get a 60-day trial?  :)
> >
> > About the rate though... DVD single-layer is "4.7" GB,
> > that's giga bytes, right?  And these are 10Gbps (giga bits per sec)...
> > so of course it is very fast but hey I've only had one glass of scotch
> :)
> > (and it doesn't math up rightly)
> >
> > Were you talking about a dual-layer, and missing the bits/bytes there?
> >
> > ben
> >
> > PS - my calcs, first is seconds to xfer DVD (not accounting for protocol
> > overheads either!), note the factor of 8 for bits/byte...
> > lastly reducing the 2^30 (=3D 1024*1024*1024) for gigs, simplifying:
> > bc 1.06
> >  Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> > This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
> > For details type `warranty'.
> > scale=3D4
> > (4.7*1024*1024*1024*8 )/(10*1024*1024*1024)
> > 3.7600
> > 4.7*8/10
> > 3.7600
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2/21/07, larry price <laprice at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> > > 10Ge means you could pump the entire contents of a DVD over the wire
> > > in less than 2 seconds.
> >
> >
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