Originally Posted by Loren Pechtel
I wouldn't worry about the /1000. It's rare that it's going to make much difference, and the /1000 is a bit of a misnomer anyway. While the wires handle that there's no ordinary PC that can actually do that, the best you get is the equivalent of about /300. Gigabit is total overkill compared to the rest of what you speced.
Wouldn't agree with that. On my office LAN I get exctly 10* the speed I had on my 100mbit lan. It all comes down to a good set of cables and a speedy drive to serve off it.