RE: IETF mailing list question on Storage over Ethernet/IP

["Monia, Charles" <cmonia@corp.adaptec.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Krause [mailto:krause@cup.hp.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 6:25 AM
> To: wayland@troikanetworks.com; ips@ece.cmu.edu
> Subject: RE: IETF mailing list question on Storage over Ethernet/IP
> 
> 
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> 1 MB of DRAM costs about $1.  I can buy very low cost 
> adapters today with 1 
> MB of DRAM without much problem - a variety of GbE adapters 
> ship with at 
> least this much and they are much cheaper than FC adapters.  

Cost comparisons must account for the fact that,  unlike GbE, Fibre Channel
adapters implement performance assists for the storage and transport
protocol layers in silicon. These assists aren't free and account for part
of the cost differential.

Charles
Charles Monia
Adaptec Inc.
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