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by makapuf 3410 days ago
Processing data wouldn't be the problem with 2 socket xeons neither would it be putting 3 or 5 Hdd on a raid5. Getting the 32TB in, however, would take at least 8 hours at 10Gbps saturated, if your disks can write that fast.
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10gigE seams fast, but in reality it's only 1.25GB/s in an ideal case. One enterprise PCIe SSD drive will saturate that. Or 5x of the old style 3.5 inch 7.2k RPM drives (you can fit 12 of these in a dense 1U case).

That why you see 40gigE or 56gigE used in HPC.

Its 25G, 50G or 100G today.