Without doing any calculations (as if I would know how) how much time does it take to copy that same file from one hard drive on a machine to another hard drive on that same machine. If it is significantly less than 23 minutes then my guess is it you would benefit from a faster network. I know there are other things that happen to the file when you start moving it from one hard drive and go over the network to another computer and hard drive but if transferring it from one HD to another on the same machine also takes about 23 minutes than I am pretty sure a faster network will not help. Doug ________________________________ From: windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:windows2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ray Costanzo Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 10:09 PM To: windows2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [windows2000] Upgrading to gigabit network Hi group, At home, I have a 100Mbps network setup and I'm trying to find out if it'd be worth upgrading my hardware to support gigabit speeds. I'm doing a lot of moving large files among machines, and it takes quite a while. But, is the speed more determined by the target machine's hard drive? The network speed? Something else? Most of the machines in my domain have ordinary ATA/100 7200 RPM hard drives. It takes about 23 minutes to move a 4.3 GB file from my machine to another. I have one 16 port switch and four 4-8 port switches I'd have to replace, so before incurring that expense, I'd like to know if there'd be any real benefit to it. Thank you, Ray at home