> 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.
Actually the idea is interesting, but: 1) the overhead for the network part can be higher when we speak of gigabit ethernet - even with the best server cards (over 3-400 US$ each); 2) since on the motherboard you will still have 1 network card you will not have "1 gigabit each", you will mostly have "1 gigabit shared" (since transfers will not be done "device to device" but instead "device to host to device"; 3) the complexity would be higher - and a lot of "translation protocols" that barely work over USB or 1394 would have to be again changed. Catalin
