With port bonding you won't get > single link speed to any one device. To get > gigabit speeds you need to go 10Gbit ethernet via copper or fiber, or do like IP over Fiber channel, or IP over infiniband, etc...
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:13:17AM +0800, Jason Chue wrote: > 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. -- Bryan G. Seitz
