HDD's used with 1000mb/s network?

[Morphes]

Hey i was reading sumthing off of tomshardware and was wondering if it was at all possible to make a hard drive use a 1gb network connection as main way of getting files, if you think about it wouldnt that make a better use than sata or pata. i mean 1 gig a sec compared to 150megs a sec, what a nice change that would be. Maybe i am just wierd but i think this could be a revolutionary way to use data for gaming and high demands of 3d artwork. Thanks for reading and please post comments cuz i am not the smartest person when it comes to ata stuff.

[Ice Czar]

its called Direct Network Attached Storage
DNAS


and so far there are no single Gigabit Drives Im aware of (http://www.iomega.com/direct/products/detail.jsp?PRODUCT%3C%3Eprd_id=12196655&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=58741&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=67&bmUID=1080917565258)
they are all 100Mbs (not 100MBs = Gigabit =1000Mbs)

besides 1 Gigabit Gb = 100 Megabytes MB (ATA 100MB/s)
SI Standard being Decimal based not Binary (http://www.pcguide.com/intro/fun/bindec-c.html)
(though Gigabit Ethernet is duplex? and so the total transfer can be 2Gb/s???
Might need to look that up :p)

on top of which, no single HDD can do Sustained Transfer Rates of 100MB/ or 150MB/s (SATA), thats just the burst rate from the cache
STR's run from 80>30MB/s (current top end 15k SCSI 80>60MB/s, typical 7200rpm Parallel or Serial ATA 50>30MB/s)
which is why youd need a RAID array to simply saturate your normal PCI bus rate of 133MB/s,

now there are Gigabit DNAS arrays, and there are multiplexGigabit Standards too...

SCSI arrays have been employing U320 (320MB/s) for awhile and FibreChannel as well but typically with a server involved and PCI Bus speed\bandwidth of 64bit 66MHz or PCI-X 64bit 133MHz
which translates into 532MB/s & 1066MB/s respectively

but in truth you probably dont own a single application that can employ that type of bandwidth at the top end :p
But a RAID array (IDE-ATA\SCSI\FC) with more than just two channels employed for graphics\video\ect in a RAID 0 would need part of the bottom end of that bandwidth
say the 64bit 66MHz PCI over 133MB/s but less than the full 532MB/s

at the top end of either, youd need a multi user environment
to generate that kind of throughput

worth the read > As the Disk Spins @ Lost Circuits (http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=699246)
specifically read Chapter III: > Interface Speed as Basis for Classification

but its better to start from the beginning