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Originally Posted by Humpy Leftnut
The two machines I'm transferring between:
Intel e6600, 2gb DDR2, WD Raptor 10k rpm
AMD 64 3800+, 2gb DDR, 320gb SATA
They sit beside each other, no distance issues
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Don't forget that transfer speeds are limited by the burst read and write speeds of each of your hard drives, and the bus you are using the Gigabit cards in. If you've got PCI cards, you'll be limited to 133 MB/second anyway (I'm sure someone will jump in and correct me on that).
Out of pure interest, why do you need Gigabit networking? If you're just shifting large files from one PC to another, FireWire is definately the way to go; it's the only protocol and standard that I've seen give real transfer speeds anywhere near what it's quoted to do.