On 30 Jan 2009, at 18:33, Harry Putnam wrote:
Norman Rieß <nor...@smash-net.org> writes:
The system only runs nfs, samba and a cups server. I do not use some
fancy guis or anything like that. So settings have to be made in the
config files manualy, except the cupsd which brings a web gui. Maybe
that is something some people would miss. But i do not think a gentoo
user would care.
Have you timed any thing like write speeds across the network to this
box?
Is it connected into 10/100 or 1000 (gigabit) setup?
I meant to say in my last message that IIRC you're never going to
actually achieve "gigabit" speeds. If your motherboard lacks an
onboard gigabit card then you're limited by the PCI bus, and I don't
know that most drives can even write as fast as gigabit.
AFAICT one tends to use gigabit at present because it's "faster than
100 Mbit/s" - one would probably be happy with 400 Mbit/s or so, but
if you've never used NAS or network storage before then in general old
100 Mbit/s ethernet is plenty fast enough for most people. Copying
700mb across old 100 Mbit/s ethernet only takes 2 minutes (I should
add this is from a slow old PIII 700mhz "NAS" to my dual-proc G5 Mac
with 3gig RAM & SATA; copying the same file to the same disk on the G5
was less than 50% faster).
Stroller.
