The other day I had the misfortune to have a dodgy 1.5TB disk in my main desktop development machine… Now I keep a backup of this drive on a secondary 1.5TB drive… however at the time I wasn’t sure the basis of the problem, so I figured I would make a second copy of my data across my network To my RAID-5 server. Now sadly I forgot the server only had a 100Mb card in it… and over 20 hours later to copy the 900GB+ of data it was done. So I swapped it out later to GB Lan to improve timescales for emergency backups. But even then, I realized that real world performance across my network still means this is hours of time to back up the data… I never thought I would think GB lan too slow, but these days I have every CD I Own ripped, every DVD I own ripped for use in my WDTV Live, I have 50GB+ of photographs, RAW DV footage from my HD video camera… The requirements to move data across a home network have changed… suddenly Gbit doesn’t seem so fast any more.
Is 1Gbit Lan fast enough for the home any more?
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