Re: next generation PlayStation
- To: Luis Commins <Luis@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: next generation PlayStation
- From: Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 13:28:48 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: jaz@xxxxxxxx, waynemm@xxxxxxxxxxx, Eugene.Leitl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, misc
- In-Reply-To: <s75f8b6d.037@ucea.ac.uk>
- References: <s75f8b6d.037@ucea.ac.uk>
I would say that FireWire is slow. I can have 800 MBps with 4
FastEthernet NICs in full-duplex and channel bonding, about the same
with a 1 GBit Ethernet NIC. I certainly can't serve that much via PCI.
Unless FireWire is switched, I'd get 6 MBps/node with 63 nodes,
which I call slow. Once again, I don't know FireWire's latency, but I
can do about 20 us on DEC Tulip.
Luis Commins writes:
> I wouldn't say FireWire is slow....400Mbit/s!! Faster than USB2
> even. Self powered and very long cable lengths possible.
> If you want to compare it with the latest SCSI developments I'd
> consider that another issue, SCSI is bulky, even the thin
> connectors are big for small projects.
> I suppose for the speed thrill you could go optical.
SCSI is a crawling abomination, especially latency-wise. There is IP
over SCSI out there, but I'd rather do a self apendectomy with broken
toothpicks.
