Re: Gigabit Ethernet Installation question

On Feb 17, 2:35 pm, "Chris D" <cd...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Between 2 PC's i very much doubt it. If you had 2 hi spec pc's you may get a
slight speed increase. Even on some of our hi end servers we only really hit
a 600Mb high on data transfers.

Standard PC's in a corporate environment won't hammer a 100Mb NIC so unless
you really want to have a GB NIC then save your cash and invest in RAM which
will benefit you more.

Hope this helps

"Cron" <cronok...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Feb 16, 8:06 pm, "Chris D" <cd...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi Cron

I doubt very much that you would actually get the Gb throughput you are
looking for. Although you may get a Gb network you then have to contend
with
the bottleneck of the disk i/o which is usually the main bottleneck. You
only have single disks so unless you spend and get some striping disk set
you wont gain the performance you are after.


OK thanks Chris - it's good to know even if it's not the answer I was
hoping for.
Ciarán
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