> Often times in a datacenter 10GE is recommended for network storage solutions, not because of bandwidth (which is also important), but for the 10x reduced lat

> Often times in a datacenter 10GE is recommended for network storage solutions, not because of bandwidth (which is also important), but for the 10x reduced latency of a 10GE NIC. Totally true. In those cases you also need your filer _not_ to compress on the fly, and not deduplicate objects... unless your hardware can do it for you. ... I remember horrible performance on VMs with images stored on a oversized netapp filer, because someone enabled deduplication and compression instead of using 1 of the 4 spare drives (when it was HDD).