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Originally posted by Camelot: There is some discussion as to whether FireWire networking is viable or not. It wasn't last time i tried it, but others seem to think it is now, meaning you can connect the array to both machines via FireWire and each machine can access all drives at full FireWire speed. |
Except with special drive arrays that have several independent FireWire ports, no, you cannot do this.
Gigabit ethernet is auto-crossover, so you can use any Cat 5e or Cat 6 ethernet cable.
You can get gigabit PCI cards, but they're not cheap.
In OS X, after installing the gigabit card, it too will show up in the network preferences panel. Move the gigabit card higher up the list than the modem and built-in ethernet, and give the gigabit a private static IP (like 192.168.x.x). Then set the built-in ethernet to whatever network settings you need for external access.
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