Ez-Aton wrote: > I would second that. Check MPG compression rate, and you'll get the > details as to the transfer rate required. > > 1Gb/s is overkill for home usage, especially when home computers still > tend to be limited by the PCI b/w, which enforces a sum of up to 133MB/s > for all PCI interfaces. It means that if you copy from a 1Gb/s network > (assuming you would get a full 100MB/s), you would write them down to > the disk at a speed of 33MB/s total, which is rather slow, comparing to > todays transfer rates. Moreover, your sound and USB would stutter at the > time of this specific transfer. No need for 1Gb/s at home. > Note that 33MByte/s is 264Mbit/s which is much more than 100Mbit/s Ethernet - which means that you can't even serve files over 100Mbit/s at the speed the HD can read/write them. So while 1Gbit/s is indeed an overkill, 100Mbit/s is already an underkill ;-).
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