On 15 November 2010 18:06, Gaffer <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Monday 15 November 2010 10:00:04 Jason Chue wrote: > > I'm actually planning on building a fast trunking home network > > between my existing desktop and my existing NAS / file server and > > would appreciate suggestions on how best to build it cheaply. > > Look at the speed of the devices that you are using or going to use > first. There isn't any point in running gigabyte if the fastest > devices can only do 100Mbs. Thanks for the reply. I get where you're coming from. Yes, currently my normal Gigabit connection saturates at about 119MB/s for download (read) and 105MB/s for upload (write) to the NAS. Close enough to the theoretical 125MB/s limit for Gigabit. My HTPC (or work machine since I spend too much time on it LOL) is equipped with 2x WD6400AAKKS drives in RAID 0 which should be able to push about 200MB/s comfortably. My NAS benches about 300 to 400MB/s. They are equipped with 4x 2TB Samsung F4EG drives. So I was thinking 2x Gigabit should be fine but I'm not too happy running a pair of CAT6 cables from HTPC in the living room to the work room where the NAS is. Something like the fibre optic cable is more elegant me thinks... With a lot of bandwidth to spare too.
