The average Hollywood movie is about 5GB in size so it'd take under 5 seconds to transfer. Getting one for 60 days sounds like fun but... keep in mind it is PCI-e and not one of us would have the hardware at home capable of saturating even half the connection. I've run fiber between boxes before and while it is much faster than 10/100 it was still limited by the read/write speeds of my drives :(
--- larry price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.sun.com/products/networking/ethernet/10gigethernet/ > > I know I'm an utter geek when the prospect of building a > system that > would need these to connect to the outside world strikes me as > a > fascinating professional challenge. > > Plus, a heatsink on a NIC just looks cool. > > 10Ge means you could pump the entire contents of a DVD over > the wire > in less than 2 seconds. > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
