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I'm on my 16th PC, and must say I love gigabit networks. I'm sorely temped to just add fast NAS's now for storage rather than keep adding newer, larger HHDs to individual machines.
If I ever wanted to go for raw speed, I'd skip a solid state NAS and go straight to a ZFS L2ARC platform (say with 2* SSD and 6 * SATA TB HDDs). But really who needs sustained 400+ mbytes / second throughput? Still being able to build such a platform for under $3K would give you enterprise class performance in the home - which is just amazing.
Bottom line - once you have more than 2-3 PCs in a house, and gigabit LANs a fast NAS becomes a really cheap and effective way to add shared storage.
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