Thread: Dual/Quad NIC
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Old 20th September 2008
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I'd really be thinking about your trying to do.

A single gigabit ethernet connection can pump theoretically 128 MByte/sec. Factoring in overheads and real world it can probably still do 100Mbyte/sec.

You have to think of everything in between to. What type of BUS does your system have (PCI, PCI-e). PCI bus can't even really handle one gigabit adaptor to it's maximum capability once you factor in that their are going to be other devices on the bus (PCI Bus max output = 133 Meg/sec).

What sort of disk sub-system. Unless you've got a pretty good raid array setup for speed you won't get close to saturating a single gigabit connection (even for sequential reads/write - best case for speed).

Might be worth it if your using 100Mbit cards. Again depends on everything in between and what your actual goals are.

If your aiming for redundancy well that's something else again.
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