Re: Gigabit LANs - Overkill for home?

["Shaf" <shaf@xxxxxxx>]

Mark,

I'm thinking of upgrading also but don't really think I'll get any
performance gains for my main network it'll just be machines that are 64bit
or machines.

Currently I have a kick ass netgear switch which gives me practical
transfer
rates of 80mbps ie a 700-800meg file can be transfered over the network
between machines in about a minute.

If I was to upgrade I would be limited by the the speed of my disks and CPU
architecture. The current bottle neck are these....

Local speeds are :
root gw:~> hdparm -tT /dev/hdd

/dev/hdd:
Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  0.63 seconds =203.17 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  1.70 seconds = 37.65 MB/sec

So if I upgrade the network at best and if I'm lucky I'll recogn I get
twice
as fast network speed and thats it.

Best and cheapest upgrade route I found was going with netgear..... 4 port
switch 200 squid + NICS @ 30 squid a piece but I'd use this for clustering
or interconnecting servers only.

Shaf



----- Original Message -----
From: "Hawes,Timothy Edward (GEG)" <haweste@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2003 7:44 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Gigabit LANs - Overkill for home?


Mark,

Not personally running one but the Dell Optiplexes I buy at work have
*onboard* 10/100/1000 LAN as standard. I guess it's one of those things
that
once you have it, you can't live without it :-)

Tim H.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark McCall

Just noticed a Gigabit NIC on eBuyer for around £50 inc VAT
http://tinyurl.com/iw93

Anyone running Gigabit LANs at home yet?  If so is it an ego thing :)  Or
is
it genuinely needed?

M.

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