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by soneil 2052 days ago
It makes a huge difference for networked storage. For some rough equivalency (ignoring seek times, but also ignoring tcp overheads etc, total spherical cow territory)

- An 8x cdrom narrowly beats 10meg ethernet.

- 1x dvdrom narrowly beats 100meg ethernet.

- ATA133 narrowly beats 1gbit ethernet.

Original SATA is 1.5gbit, so 1Gbit ether bottlenecks us to 1999 storage speeds.