Gigabit Home NAS?

[Mike Redrobe]

I think you meant 400-600Mb/s (megabit per second).

It might be even worse if a disk controller shares the same
bus with gigabit NIC. I get 260-280Mb/s when reading from a
single drive share over the gigabit ethernet.

That's still 35 Mbyte/sec, reasonable for real world usage
of a single drive. I.e. not a contrived sequential read benchmark
...and a considerable step up from the 12Meg/sec of a 100Mbps
network.

Whats the drive capable of when transferring between 2 local drives?

 

[Arno Wagner]

If building a home server with only 100Mbit enet, would you be able to
improve performance by using two PCI ethernet cards? If using a
switched network, then it should work...depending on how the OS utilizes
the cards.

Could be tricky to configure. Easiest would be two different LANs
on IP layer on the cards and the clients on eithe rone, but not
both.

Arno