On 12/17/2014 11:05 PM, Olli Ries wrote: > just ran across http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTg2NDc > which covers Michaels experience with USB NICs
One of the comments on that article recommended the TRENDnet TU3-ETG USB 3.0 gigabit adapter. Says it uses a lot less power than the Plugable brand ones, which is important when using on a small ARM board. In speed tests I've found, most of these little USB3 gigabit dongles are remarkably fast. Within 90-95% of a PCIe gigabit adapter. Back to Dan's question. What is your end goal here? What will the PXE-booted workstations be used for? Because yes gigabit is a lot slower than average SATA speeds, but in practice you could run a Linux PXE booted system on a gigabit NFS root and hardly notice the difference for many things. App load times would be a bit slower of course. The Linux Terminal Server Project have been pxe booting full graphical clients for years on even 100 Mbit and nor 1000 Mbit and it has been quite useable. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
