Ah, but you are still stuck with workstation PCI buss speeds of 144MByte/second, unless you buy some fancy hardware for all of your work stations. SCSI still rocks, though I've heard of IDE 133 actually getting up to 70 MB/ second. From what I've read, SATA might get you a little better or might be much worse.
So, if you have good hard drives, your file transfers might do well with GigE. My fastest drives only run 40MByte/sec so 100 and even 10 works OK. The fastest transfers I get are around two or three MByte/sec, matching the weakest hard drive. A one gig file takes a few minutes and I just live with that. For other stuff, even 10 works. This message was written using an X forwarded kmail session over 10 mbs ethernet. By the way, my poor abused 10 mbs ethernet hub survived the summer in the attic. It beat the heat and dust. Yes, I'm surprised. I might even have wireless in place before it blows out. -big grin- On Tuesday 07 September 2004 10:42 am, -ray wrote: >.... > > The solution is SCSI (or SATA) drives, and lots of them. On different > PCI/SCSI/SATA buses, and lots of them. That gets pretty expensive... it's > cheaper to wait a few minutes for the file to transfer. :) > > As far as doing gig-E at home, i say why not. It's cheap enough now to do > it just for the coolness factor. Gig-e is not going anywhere, so it's not > a bad investment. > > ray
