Recommended PCI gigabit ethernet card? OT: PC Gigabit Through put Question

[Paul Lussier]

"Tom Buskey" <tom at buskey.name> writes:

> On top of that, if hdparm says timed disk writes are around 40MB, what
>> could you see for sustained download speeds? Maybe a static cached
>> webpage could saturate a gig connection, sustained 5 gig http download
>> couldn't right?
>>
>> Anyone have real world answers for that stuff?
>
> What if you're downloading to RAM disk?

What if you're building a router?  The traffic never hits the disk, so
drive performance is irrellevent here.
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Seeya,
Paul