Well, in general gigabit is useless at home because most people don't have the disk subsystems to really use it. I have an 8 port gigabit switch, but recently bought a 24 port 10/100 managed switch for everything, it has two gigabit ports on it that I'm going to use for doing this stuff.
SATA and IDE drives create disk bottlenecks that when dealing with network systems. At work I run file, web and DB server that do various things, and the only time I ever actually get gigabit speeds is when doing backups. I'll push a sustained 400Mb for about 5 minutes doing backups, and that is only because the backup server is able to take it. Gigabit does improve latency and backbone speeds. But my 10/100 switch has a 3Gb backbone, so that isn't a problem. > -----Original Message----- > From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 3:46 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: Mac Mini beats Media Center PC's. > > I've been looking at getting a gigabit switch for the house. Anyone > have experience with them? How important are jumbo frames? > > The only "research" I've done is to look at the newegg listings, > became mildly overwhelmed trying to differentiate among products that > look basically the same, and decided to just deal with it another day. > That was 6 months ago. :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:199597 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
