Thought crossed my mind a few days back as I was pulling 25gig of anime off a friends pc the other day .. just curious if theres a possibility of getting the internals to support 100/1000?  Ive seen the pcmcia cards just thought it would be nicer to have it internal like the BT mod.

It’s probably not possible to do anything internal. Also, in most cases, that amount of bandwidth would be wasted since the hard disk couldn’t keep up with it. Also, gigabit ethernet requires quite a bit of CPU overhead so again, it wouldn’t match up with the rest of the system.

If 100Mb/s via ethernet is too slow for you then use a firewire cable between the two systems and transfer at 400Mb/s. That should be more than enough bandwidth for your transfer.

Nice avatar change, gr00vy. I never get tired of watching Mai… uh… bounce.  :ph34r:

My personal favorite Mai intro:

[quote author=“gr00vy0ne”]It’s probably not possible to do anything internal. Also, in most cases, that amount of bandwidth would be wasted since the hard disk couldn’t keep up with it. Also, gigabit ethernet requires quite a bit of CPU overhead so again, it wouldn’t match up with the rest of the system.

If 100Mb/s via ethernet is too slow for you then use a firewire cable between the two systems and transfer at 400Mb/s. That should be more than enough bandwidth for your transfer.

Would pbb be cheaper to go the firewire route too.  Many modern mobos already have integrated firewire.  Gigabit is still in infancy at the consumer level, so chances are you’ll have to buy NICs for both computers.  Furthermore, firewire uses the connection more efficiently .

Another option might be a USB 2.0 transfer cable .  Personally never tested these though, as firewire does a good enough job of high speed transfers for me.

Well I do already use a USB2.0 transfer cable at 480mbps which granted is fast but I love tinkering with the laptop so thought Id gander into the gigabit.  Ill probably give one of the pcm cia cards a shot.  Thanks for the info.

Just don’t expect any miracles…

1000Mb/s = 125MB/s

For long transfers, there is no known hard disk that can sustain that kind of read or write. So, in many cases, it’s totally overkill. Even Firewire’s 400Mb/s (50MB/s) is overkill in many cases. You also have to figure that unless your friend’s hard disk is sufficiently defragmented then the transfers won’t be purely sequential meaning even slower performance. The fastest notebook hard drive is the Hitachi 7K60 which hits 28-30MB/s tops in random reads. Also, don’t be surprised to see CPU utilization be anywhere from 30-70% for gigabit transfers. Since you’re using a PCMCIA slot, you’re going through the PCI bus (133MB/s max) which will likely be congested with other traffic.

[quote author=“Drachen”]Nice avatar change, gr00vy. I never get tired of watching Mai… uh… bounce.  :ph34r:

My personal favorite Mai intro:

me too..  :wink:

Yea, but who wants reality? Reality bites! How about a 10K RPM RAID array conntected to my T150 lappy through a GB link? What a screamer! Now all we need is an outboard 3-D video arrangement, surround sound, ...  and a bigger desk to put everything on.

I wonder if we could put it all in a nice, small package and run it from a car battery?