Hi Gerhard,

It's typically limited by the cpu of the slowest machine, not its disk
drives. You want your fileserver to be a smokin' hot machine if it will
serve multiple clients. No shared-memory video.

Expect 200 Mbits/second if you do everything right. 50 Mbits/second if
you do it wrong.

Don't use a MyBook World for your fileserver :)

Cheerful regards,

Bob


Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone have any experience about typical throughput on a gigabit LAN,
> and on what it depends to be high? I'm thinking about centralizing all
> kinds of local storage at one server, and if that were fast enough to
> outpace the disks, then this wouldn't have any downsides.
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