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Should I switch to gigabit?

Chris Vogel - Aug-16-2005 server time

If everything is fine at your current speed, I wouldn’t upgrade. I would just save that money. You never know when you may really need it.

Red Squirrel - Aug-16-2005 server time

Local access is what really counts, otherwise even 10 would be over kill.

With my backup solution I'll put in place, jobs might overlap, but only time will tell, and with rsync it should do fine at 100.

jryan - Aug-16-2005 server time

Gigabit would offer no advantage other than Local Access. Remember, Red, our Cable internet connects to the computers in timmins at 100MB.. ADSL at 10MB for connection to nic wise. And, our ADSL speeds in Timmins have been bumped to a Whopping 5MB. So you could technically slow down your nic rediculously and not notice a difference.

Red Squirrel - Aug-15-2005 server time

Here's the latest things I've spent money on so far:

aprox price | item | reason

300$ | barebones system | could not beat the price
200$ | 300GB HDD | MORE MORE MORE space for the server
150$ | 200GB HDD | MORE!!! (for workstation)
40$ | HDD enclosure | can come in handy
750$ | parts for new system, other one fubared up completely
600$ | HDD enclosures/HDD's for my new backup solution

I think I left some things out

Total: too much!

Now convince me to switch to gigabit! That would involve buying two switches, and I think just one nic, since only the server has a 100mbit one. So really we're looking at another 200 bucks. Only.

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