network throughput benchmark?

[Alex Gerulaitis]

Thanks Matt,

Both the client and I are big fans of Small-Tree; ended up getting quite a few Small-Tree PCIe and TB NICs.

The 10GbE Netgear switch works for the purpose though: a little more performance for not a lot of money. Any other 10GbE switch would be quite a bit more money, and thus unsuitable, i.e. the client would have stayed with plain vanilla GbE.

If it was anything mission critical, I am sure sure the client would have looked at Small-Tree switches, as well.

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Matt Geier] “LanTest for OSX – Bandwidth and Read/Write benchmarking”

Thanks Matt! I’ll pass your post to my client. Not sure he still needs to do benchmarking for this project, but I am sure it’ll be very useful at some point.

[Matt Geier]

Hi Alex,

Thanks for posting back.
I like the feedback too!

– BTW – I’m not with Small Tree anymore. I should make that clear. Some folks know by now and some don’t.

I am however still working on some angles staying in front of people that I work with. I still have tools and information I’m offering that others are not! 🙂

I realize that most of the products I recommend are pricey. I’ve dealt with those objections before. And I’m sure you have as well! 🙂 We all have, frankly.

Some of these work for a certain purpose.
For real-time video, most of them suck.
For File Transferring over 1GbE, most of them are okay and do the job. Some don’t do it well though.
For anything with 10GbE on it, that changes the whole scenario. As soon as someone sucks all the switch bandwidth up, everyone will feel it. – Give them time! 🙂

No worries.

I just find it funny sometimes, how folks go and spend 20K on a storage system, or 5K for a camera with Ethernet connectivity, but they want to spend 100 on the switch or networking and don’t get full productivity out of what they have invested in. I like to avoid the imbalance people want to have, vs doing it right, and getting them what they will need now, and use later too!

I want to be helpful because of what knowledge I have and whom I work with that I can thank for the trainings I’ve received.

Don’t take me the wrong way….I don’t have the reputation like Bob Zellin, but I do consider him a friend like many here….and were all usually very honest and straight forward with the end users and customers and clients we all service and support here. Just all be it in different ways! 🙂

Catch ya later!

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