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Originally Posted by farkedup
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?
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Because HDs read and write faster than 10MB/sec?
I connected up my wife's comp to the NFS share tonight and it's 100Mbps so it's sllllooowwwww
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Originally Posted by farkedup
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.
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Fair enough. One reason I chose to build my own NAS box rather than use a canned one is that I can simply add more ethernet cards (and drives) if things start getting a little slow or crowded. Physically, it can hold 6 PCI or PCI express cards, and about 10 drives. I decided to use the second gigabit port in my 'doze workstation as a dedicated crossover to the NAS box rather than going via the switch. (Does gigabit bridging even work via a switch?) Even so it's not blindingly fast, probably about 30-35MBytes/sec. I'm happy with it because it's replacing a very unstable Windows RAID setup.