would I notice a difference?

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A quick question, Would I notice a difference if i used a Gigabit card insted of the Gigabit on my motherboard?
 
Nocky24 said:
Yes, going from onboard to a card will be a big difference. What gpu are you considering?
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Surely the OP is talking about Ethernet connection?

I wouldn't have thought there'd be much difference.
I thought I read somewhere that one of the limiting factors when copying across a gigabit network was the HDD speed (I guess write speed), but that may not be right.
 
there are those killer networking cards that are meant to lower ping but i believe there are better things top splash £200 on. stick with on-board any gain will be marginal.
 
No difference worth the cost and time of installation. Not even one of those gaming network cards are worth bothering with these days.
 
Cleverer cards, which are likely to be Intel rather than Killer, offload various things from the host. I can't remember what calculations these would be, but it seems to be believed that better network cards make a large difference to home or corporate networks. The diy home server / nas crowd seem to put a lot of faith in them at least.

You haven't said what will be on the other end of the wire though, if it's an adsl modem then you're rather unlikely to see a benefit.
 
Sorry the use would be for my ReadyNas Duo gigabit connection, I got a lot of data to move and taking along time lol but if i turn off Jumbo Frames and streaming service then i get 20mbs but a guy tested he's and got 25 - 40mbs with streaming services on i think and he used Jumbo Frames.

I didn't want to spend loads to be honest but I will be moving big files a lot so wanted to speed it up.. so maybe a Jumbo Frames supported gigabit router and card if mine don't support it?
 
You will notice very little difference if any, as above your hard drive will be the limiting factor or even your south bridge, both the onboard nic and a pci/pci-e card will be going through your south bridge and this could be where the limitation is, any gigabit nic should be able to achience over 100mBYTES a second and your hard drive will struggle to reach anywhere near this.

How are the HDDs connected to the readynas? If using USB this will be the limiting factor.
 
I use eathernet cable to my switch that goes to my ReadyNas Duo, It has this drive in it CLICK HERE and may get the second one this week.

I copy from Sata drives on my pc... So nothing will give me more mbs over the network?
 
What switch are you using? Drive should be fine, I use 2 of these in my server and no problems with speed over my gigabit network.
 
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