Also - why the gigabit networking card? If you were to go gigabit, the Intel cards are the best consumer cards you can get. However, you'll still achieve no more than about 225 Mbps - nowhere near gigabit for consumer-level switches and assuming a gigabit adapter built into a motherboard on another PC. To get true gigabit, you have to get the very expensive enterprise-level switches and NICs. Also even if you did get gigabit speeds, a PCI-based card would saturate the PCI bus before you'd saturate the gigabit connection (heck most hard drives can't sustain true gigabit speeds!)
SlimServer/Squeezebox won't benefit from gigabit - it works perfectly fine even with ancient 10 Mbps connections. About the only thing you'd need it for is transferring lots of lossless music files back and forth. And even that is probably not worth the investment if you'll only get 225 Mbps. Transferring a CD's worth of lossless compressed music files over 100 Mbps doesn't take a whole lot of time, 30 seconds or so. Does the ~15 seconds saved per CD really justify the extra cost? Finally, Linux software RAID (mdadm) works like a hot damn! Completely seamless, completely trouble free. Set it and forget it. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38519 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
