Just out of curiosity. Wouldn't using gigabit networking for connecting perhiperals inside a system be good?
I mean a mobo could have a 8 port switch, for example. 1 port for CDROM 1 port for DVD Hard disks.. etc. Since it would be a switch, each device would have a full gigabit of bandwidth. I am sure it could be done. As far as bandwidth is concerned..... 1 Gbps = 125 Mega Bytes a second theoretical. Even assuming 10% overhead for TCP packets and all that, we are still talking about 100 Megabytes per second per device.
