Very interesting. One server is very tantalizing.<br><br>Would it help to have 2 Ethernet cards ?<br><br>I have 2 switches. One is a gigabit switch and the only thing on it is Myth FEs and the server.<br><br>The other switch is 10/100 and has "general" stuff on it. I could tap into it with a second Ethernet card so that NAS bandwidth stays off the Gigabit switch.<br>
<br>As far as disk access, my new server has 2 6 GB SATA ports on it. <br><br>Does it help if the NAS drives are handled by a separate card ?<br><br>What happens when the NAS stuff uses Linux software RAID ?<br><br>Just to give you an idea of the NAS requirements, I have a high end digital camera and thus have directories with hundreds of 20 MB files in them. When I fire up Digikam, it sometimes wants to load a directory all at once.<br>
<br>I'm running an E4200 router. It allows QOS throttling.<br>