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Originally Posted by rowan
I decided on the reverse: rather than forcing 'nix to work with Windows, I forced Windows to work with 'nix. NFS, baby. 
What storage setup are you running that can read/write at greater than the capacity of a single gigabit ethernet? |
I go dual more because I can than because I need to. just a couple years ago I said why would I need gigabit when 100Mb is fast enough?
Think of it like this: gigabit is plenty of bandwidth when you have 1 computer connecting to the storage but then when you have 2-3 using the storage it can get drained. Also I never said everything was on a single drive. I have 4 500Gb drives in that box simply because I haven't felt like paying the price premium on 1Tb drives (when the price drops more then I will but 6mnths ago it was dumb)
but it still comes down to I simply had an extra port and the motherboard has dual gigabit ports SOOO why not go dual?
BTW my files are using NFS and it is a linux box, I use samba to allow my windows machines to connect to this linux one. I'm starting to juggle files around while I wait for my 2 WD 640Gb drives to come and I setup a new machine with RAID for my main desktop. The quad core will remain int he file server/ encoding box while the E8400 goes into the main workstation.