it's not the hard drive. fast ethernet=100mb/s=12.5MB/s ..with standards like ATA100 and Ultra160 reaching 100MB/s and 160MB/s peaks, i'm sure your common hard drives can sustain 13MB/s throughput.

http://www.storage.ibm.com/hardsoft/...sk/ds60gxp.htm <-- see sustained data rate.

unless your on a switch, you absolutely can't run full duplex. your card may be in full duplex mode and you may pass data but you'll lose lots of frames and get lots of errors and it'll run like crap if it runs at all. i run 100mb half duplex on my switch and it runs better than full.. it's a cheap switch.. now if it was a cisco and I paid 10K for it I'd be pissed.

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[This message has been edited by iateyourcat (edited December 29, 2000).]