CentOS - Jan 2012 - A Hardware Observation (and Thank You To John Pierce)

A few days ago, John Pierce made a comment about Intel network cards and that
they are more reliable and a better overall card than most. (This is not exactly
what he said, but rather I am paraphrasing) My small cluster of servers all had
generic PCI nics in them (I was not using any onboard NICS).

Today, I replaced the NICS with Intel Pro 1000 PCI-E NICS and replaces our small
5 port TP-Link GB switch with a nice 8 port Cisco GB switch and what a world of
difference. The network is zippier for sure. Copying large files between
machines using 'scp' is faster, our websites come up better (testing
from my wife's work) too.

I know some have joked about the PB conversation in terms of not realizing the
amount of electricity and space it will take, but I really do read and pay
attention and try not to ask totally stupid questions.

John Pierce, thank you!

-Jason

If you have changed all the devices at once (switch and network cards) 
you are not able to know if the improvement has caused by the switch or 
by the NICs.

Anyway, congrats for your new network :D

El 30/01/12 04:01, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle escribi?:
> A few days ago, John Pierce made a comment about Intel network cards and
that they are more reliable and a better overall card than most. (This is not
exactly what he said, but rather I am paraphrasing) My small cluster of servers
all had generic PCI nics in them (I was not using any onboard NICS).
>
> Today, I replaced the NICS with Intel Pro 1000 PCI-E NICS and replaces our
small 5 port TP-Link GB switch with a nice 8 port Cisco GB switch and what a
world of difference. The network is zippier for sure. Copying large files
between machines using 'scp' is faster, our websites come up better
(testing from my wife's work) too.
>
> I know some have joked about the PB conversation in terms of not realizing
the amount of electricity and space it will take, but I really do read and pay
attention and try not to ask totally stupid questions.
>
> John Pierce, thank you!
>
> -Jason
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