On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 20:26 -0700, Vitaliy wrote:
> Marcel Birthelmer wrote:
> >> IEEE1394 may also be worth some consideration, especially since you can 
> >> just
> connect them directly without a device in between, and without special
> drivers (on most OS's anyway). <<
> 
> I was going to suggest FireWire, which I used for the same purpose 
> (transferring very large files b/w laptop and home PC). But if OP has 
> gigabit NICs in both computers, he just needs a crossover cable. I'm too 
> lazy to compare the overheads, but my intuition tells me Gigabit Ethernet is 
> at least as fast as 800 Mbit/s IEEE1394.

It's very doubtful you'll see a difference.

Beyond 100BaseT, the bit people seem to be forgetting is the hard drives
will likely be the limit.

I recently upgraded my network to gigabit since I regularly need to
transfer GBs of data between machines. The fastest drive I have can
sustain just under 50MB/s, and that's a SATA drive with NCQ. My USB2
drive only manages about 30MB/s. My laptop drive can barely maintain a
speed above 20MB/s.

Unless we're talking about 10k rpm drives, I'd say gigabit or firewire
would be equivalent.

TTYL
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