Minimum Specs for Giga-ethernet?

[Venner]

(Cross-referenced to my thread in Disk Storage.)

I'm thinking about buying a couple of Giga Ethernet cards and a crossover cable to make a networked backup server...lots of data to move. The backup server has an AMD K6-2 300mhz cpu and about 256Mb of ram. Will it be able to handle the Giga Ethernet? (FYI, drives will be on another ATA133 PCI card.)

 

[shade91]

It can handle it but you will not get the full benefits of gigabit ethernet.

 

[Venner]

Would you expect higher throughput than 100BT though? Would you still expect a fairly drastic reduction in the time to copy, say, 150Gb?

2 cards & a cable is only a $30 upgrade, but if it isn't terribly better that regular "fast" ethernet, I won't pursue it...

Thanks -

 

[Ockie0107]

There should be an increase in times, but don't expect it to be 1gbit a sec. Also, if you want a good performance increase, use better nics, cheap nics uses more overhead which in turn slows down your backup machines more than it already is.