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    External Storage Options?

    Here's some linkage to performance comparisons of USB 2.0 vs. Firewire 400 & 800 external drives. Some include SATA in the mix also. http://www.anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=2515&p=1 http://www.barefeats.com/usb2.html http://www.barefeats.com/hard51.html...
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    External Storage Options?

    If you really want a firewire/usb solution check this out. Here's another solution that offers all three interfaces. E-SATA offers the best perfomance and doesn't require any additional software, but you can't take it anywhere and expect to plug it in to other PCs. Thats why I felt that the...
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    External Storage Options?

    I'd buy an enclosure that supports SATA and USB. Firewire support is nice, but I think USB is more common. If you have a board that supports SATA, then you'll get better perfomance from it rather than USB. This site has everything you'll need.
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    Good Gigabit Switch

    I have the SMC 8505T switch. Newegg sells it for $100, but I got it from here It costs $56. It supports jumbo frames and seems to be a good switch for the money. I bought it because of jumbo frame support. It is the only low priced switch that suports jumbo frames; the next cheapest was around...
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    Gigabit Lan/Dual Nics

    The config you mention is how I have it now, but I can't use jumbo frames with it like that. Whenever I enable jumbo frames, I lose internet or it goes very, very slow. It doesn't make sense to me, but that's what happens. I've tried it twice. I'd like to use jumbo frames to lower CPU...
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    Gigabit Lan/Dual Nics

    Thanks. If I subnet, do the gigabit cards get a value for default gateway and DNS in the properties window?
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    Gigabit Lan/Dual Nics

    I'm trying to configure a network that uses two nics per PC, a 10/100 card and a 10/100/1000 card. The LAN will be gigabit using jumbo frames: each card and the switch support them. The switch is unmanaged. The idea is to use the 10/100 nics for internet only traffic and the gigabit adapters for...
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    Gigabit LAN and jumbo frames?

    Which is exactly where I want it! I want the network drives to feel like a directly attached disk. I do tons of large file transfers across the network and they just take too long. Thanks to everyone for the replies. :cool:
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    Gigabit LAN and jumbo frames?

    The router doesn't support jumbo frames and is 10/100.
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    Gigabit LAN and jumbo frames?

    Thanks. I read that some routers drop jumbo frames when they don't support them, that's why I was asking. I take it you're using jumbo frames? How's the performance?
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    Gigabit LAN and jumbo frames?

    I want to set up a gigabit LAN and use jumbo frames. I have an SMC 4 port unmanaged switch that supports jumbo frames and I have Intel gigabit adapters (that support jumbo frames) on the workstations (3). I have a Netgear RP614 router that is connected to a DSL internet connection. I'd like to...
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