Until I need to copy more than a TB over it, anyway.
The obvious thing to do would be to take a disc out of one PC, put it in the other, and do it via SATA, but the first PC has to stay working throughout.
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I'm at about a 15MB/s cap on my link - 802.11n on 5GHz to the AirPort in the spare room. Not bad, but if I want to start shuffling entire hierarchies between drives, I'll still want to directly connect them to realise the full 30MB/s over USB2. (USB3's another matter, of course, though HDs still cap at around 90MB/s regardless of the external interface)
Bah! I suppose I may have to get some kind of desktop system eventually. =:P Probably just a headless server, though it would be fun to stuff a nice graphics card in for SL - but that's then adding real money. FSM knows, it'd've come in handy in the past few months, though Dandelion's come through regardless, crunching away on contours, night after night. ^_^
That's well worth the upgrade.
When you realise that 10MB/second is sooo sloowwwwwww
LOL
And indeed, I remember the speed differences from 10BaseT, 10Mbs hubs to switches, 10Mbps to 100Mbps switches, 100mbps switches with a gigabit feed, then full fat gigabit :-)
I, alas, haven't got my hands on anything 10Gbps yet...
But USB 3 is also pretty astoundingly quick vs USB 2.
:-)
Similarly even the new PC doesn't have USB3 (AMD A55 chipset rather than the A57-based equivalent that would have been about £80 more) and I don't have any USB3 kit. When I do, a USB3 PCI card is about ten quid.
Is there somewhere that shows the historic prices for 8Gb DDR3 SIMMs? Preferably with a guess about future trends? I can see that they have been significantly cheaper than now... are they going to be again in the reasonably near future?
The best way to predict the future is listen to the news...
But yeah - Heh - I've never seen the Powerline stuff get anywhere near its advertised speeds - However - It does fill a niche - I have the Billion ones in my house, and they've never skipped a beat.
Where as I have a ballache of a time with Netgear stuff.
Just tried Solwise at a clients for the first first time, and it seems to be "okay".
I guess we will see what goes with the 802.11ac stuff when it gets widespread.
Certainly finding that 802.11n stuff only works well with top grade chipsets (Intel 6205 / 6300) - Anything else is flaky and worhless with the 1x1 antennas inspite of being "n" - It's not even n lite.
But yeah, for me, I'm Intel all the way, AMD as a CPU has done nothing but kick me in the balls after a few years use lol