Setting up a fibre network

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just looking online, I can see various 4GBps fibre PCI network cards for around £20 ans witches for around £50, which seem ridiculously cheap! Which ones are good?

i guess i can start with 2 cards and a switch? I'll be running from a Freenas server and Owncloud to Windows 7. Will i see a vast improvement over my current 1GBps CAt5 network?

 

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yes, is HP or Qlogic any good? the brocade ones are over £100.

 

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I use FC (4Gb) at home for my SAN and it works perfectly for my needs. I'm also not biggest fan of iSCSI for a large number of reason.

I've been looking into 10Gb X520 cards but at the moment, they are still too expensive. As on as the local SAN performance is capable of 2GB/s +

Also I've been meaning to write a blog about the storage side of things but I've not had time to get around to it yet.

Wow how was it setup? I'm mainly storing lots of medium size files (100Mb - a few GB) totaling 1TB atm. I'd just like to see how fast it can go lol.