That very much depends on what you're using and how you tune things. With NFSv4.1, you can use parallel nfs, which is essentially striping reads and writes over

That very much depends on what you're using and how you tune things. With NFSv4.1, you can use parallel nfs, which is essentially striping reads and writes over multiple nfs servers. http://www.pnfs.com/ http://www.pnfs.com/ If you're using modern servers and clients, it is as fast as you can imagine a cluster of ssd nfs servers to be.