Quote Originally Posted by SeanLeyne
Are you sure that Infiniband is faster than 10Gb? My research shows that they run at exactly the same speed, both at a hardware and throughput level.

As for pricing, your right about that; a Fujitsu XG700 12 port 10Gb CX4 switch has a street price of $7600 USD, while a Qlogic 9024 SilverStorm 24 port switch can be had for $4000.


Sean
Infiniband is also available in 20Gbit versions at this time...but you shouldn't just compare it's networking speed as the protocols used to transport data differ from each other. Infiniband uses a scsi command protocol directly transported over the network connection while iscsi uses the tcp/ip layer. I would suggest to read some about it and compare pricing...you will see infiniband is a great option compared to 10GBe.