RE: Re: 24 Port RM Gigabit Switches

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nah ... I get much more than that between my Quad core Q6600 Windows
Vista
machine and my AMD X2 4000 Windows Home Server box. Copying Blu-Ray images
between the two I have definitely seen averages of well in excess of
60Mbytes a second (confirmed by the drive throughput figures on the WHS
Disk
Management GUI).

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Paul Bendall
> Sent: 22 January 2009 13:26
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: 24 Port RM Gigabit Switches
>
> Good point Craig
>
> I believe Gigabit tops out at 50MBps throughput and even a copy to /
> from local disks only achieves around 35MBps
>
> Paul
>
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, craig <craigc.lists@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Anyone using similar or have any comments on the unbranded
stuff ?
> >
> > I don't know you exact setup, but I would go for branded
unmanaged,
> eg
> > GS116, unless you need to setup VLANs etc. The netgear have
lifetime
> > warranty, may be useful after a thunder/lightning storm ;)
> >
> > Plug all the gigabit devices in the new switch, keep the old
10/100
> for the
> > non gigabit devices, eg printers, access point(s), etc
> >
> > >
> > > Also - with CAT5 (not CAT5E) will I get speeds something
between
> 100
> > > and
> > > 1000 or is it an all or nothing process?
> > >
> >
> > If its terminated correctly, and installed to a reasonable spec
it
> should
> > negotiate at 1000Mb, however I doubt you will actually see a
> throughput of
> > 1000Mb on devices, due to other hardware constrains, eg PCI bus,
> disk speed,
> > etc
> >
>
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