anyone using anything faster then Gigabit Ethernet?

[supernova777]

http://blog.asset-intertech.com/test_data_out/2012/03/when-gigabit-ethernet-isnt-fast-enough.html

im running into a wall where i cant get speeds above 122MB/s with my nas4free server
and i just realized thats because 125MB/s is the max speed of gigabit ethernet..

is anyone here running a network at speeds above 1000BaseT?

I know Knez talked briefly about this but it would be great if he or anyone else could share any insight into this

firewire800 + USB 2.0 are both slower then gigabit ethernet
just to recap a bit of technologies with theoretical speeds faster then Gigabit ethernet:
SATA150
SATA300
SATA600
USB3
thunderbolt

[acelera]

You could always team several NICs together on some NAS devices but this would also require having teamed NICs on your computer. We do use 10Gbit and 20Gbit at work for a number of things but not at the desktop level and rather at the SAN and Server levels.

[supernova777]

i dont eevn know what the speed limit of 10Gbit is.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Gigabit_Ethernet

can u buy 10Gbit network Switches? + PCI addon cards? probably needs PCI-Express?

[chokobo]

If it's all Macs have you actually tried FireWire? The closest I've don was target disk mode, but you can network over FW too.

[acelera]

i dont eevn know what the speed limit of 10Gbit is.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Gigabit_Ethernet

can u buy 10Gbit network Switches? + PCI addon cards? probably needs PCI-Express?

Yep, you can have 10Gbit network switches and PCI express cards. You can even get cards with 4 ports on them for an aggregated 40Gbits. Then there's Infiniband too which goes to 56 and even 80 but that's for really rich IT departments. Not aware of any PCI 10Gbit cards, funnily enough.

[supernova777]

If it's all Macs have you actually tried FireWire? The closest I've don was target disk mode, but you can network over FW too.

firewire is nowhere as fast as gigabit ethernet.
fw800 isnt even faster then gigabit ethernet..
fw400 is comparable to usb 2.0 which is about 1/3 the speed of
gigabit ethernet.

http://www.oldschooldaw.com/forums/index.php?topic=24.0
common speed of fw800 is 80MB/s  according to my post here
and FW400 achieves around 50MB/s usually.

the only thing really accessible + available that beats gigabit ethernet is esata... at sata2 + sata3 speeds of 3gbps + 6gbps.