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Originally Posted by blue68f100
Not to my knowledge. The chips are soldered in. Then you would have a driver issue. There would be no performance gain. They are unable to match the 100mbps now.
David
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I believe SnapOS 4 has gigabit capability and it does show up in the debug section. I also believe it is a Realtek driver. As far as performance gain, what you said is true of the 2000 but the 4000 series can saturate a 100mbs connection with only one drive let alone raid. Other than the lack of a newer Promise driver for the 4100/Dell705N, thus limiting each drive to 137GB, they could be kickass enough to make a 1TB+ raid server and benefit from a gigabit chip. Of course, 1000mbs would be the line speed and you would not likely hit even 500mbs with this hardware but even doubling the current throughput of the 4100 would be a great help. The newer than 4100 snaps have expansion and the P4 based ones have gigabit nics in them already as well as using Guardian OS which is Linux based, not BSD as SnapOS is.