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Help with Gigabit home networking

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So how fast is your HDD I/O speed? That's going to be the bottleneck. It's not like there are a lot of nodes on the network.
 
Originally posted by: Madwand1
I disagree, and have made some comments here on that, going farther to suggest that gigabit should be regarded as a commonly-achievable standard.
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I agree, and I think (in the tried and true tradition of Computer Geeks everywhere) this topic gets overkilled. If the OP buys the $25 DLink switch and combines it with any reliable set of Gigabit NICs, it'll result in a network that is, doubtless, faster than the hard drives on that home network. The $25 switch claims Jumbo Frames. The $10 NIC claims Jumbo Frames. How horrible can it be, considering what most folks do with their home network?

Can you get a better NIC for $50 or more? Probably. Is it worth paying 5x as much?
Can you get a better switch? Maybe/maybe not.
 
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