This calculation is incorrect btw. 10,000 GB transferred at 1.25 GB / sec would complete in about 8,000 seconds which is just 2.2 hours and not 5.5 days. The error is in the conversion (1hr/60secs) which is off by 2 orders of magnitude since (1hr/3600secs) is the correct conversion.
-Bryan On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Hiller, Dean <dean.hil...@nrel.gov> wrote: > Google "10 gigabit in gigabytes" gives me 1.25 gigabytes/second (yes I > could have divided by 8 in my head but eh…course when I saw the number, I > went duh) > > So trying to transfer 10 Terabytes or 10,000 Gigabytes to a node that we > are bringing online to replace a dead node would take approximately 5 > days??? > > This means no one else is using the bandwidth too ;). 10,000Gigabytes * 1 > second/1.25 * 1hr/60secs * 1 day / 24 hrs = 5.555555 days. This is more > likely 11 days if we only use 50% of the network. > > So bringing a new node up to speed is more like 11 days once it is > crashed. I think this is the main reason the 1Terabyte exists to begin > with, right? > >
