J_RaD - 6:46 pm on May 8, 2012 (gmt 0)

yea you def need gigabit, 2 channel bonded wouldn't hurt either.

once you get that far you are going to have to start watching your disk throughput, cause that will be your next bottleneck.

actually, yea.... that too, do you have any logs on your disks? what interface are they using as well?