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I like like the bottle neck in the future will be Harddrive/SSD file read/write speeds. Honestly, I'd love to have my hands on a terabyte drive with 1TBps spee

I like like the bottle neck in the future will be Harddrive/SSD file read/write speeds. Honestly, I'd love to have my hands on a terabyte drive with 1TBps speeds.

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dahfizz 6y ago
I think latency of a network will always lag behind that of local storage. Even traveling at the speed of light, going around the circumference of the earth takes over 100ms. Obviously not all network requests go around the globe, but the fact that local storage is physically closer to your computer will always be a sizeable advantage.
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- hutzlibu 6y ago
  Plus the fact that cloud storage has to be stored on physical storage as well ...
rayiner 6y ago
It’s not even the future. 40 gig Ethernet is already faster than most SSDs. And you can get a card on eBay for $200.
IdiocyInAction 6y ago
Memory access latency is already the biggest bottleneck when it comes to optimization, both disk and RAM.
dasudasu 6y ago
Electro-optic conversion is expensive in terms of power, so you better be sure it's necessary. There are still some people looking at hybrid computers with both optics and electronics. To be practical, you'd need both to be realized in the same platform, but they don't exactly work on the same scales, and laser integration is a big issue.
coribuci 6y ago
> I like like the bottle neck in the future will be Harddrive/SSD file read/write speeds. No. It will be your ISP > Honestly, I'd love to have my hands on a terabyte drive with 1TBps speeds. You need also a fast processor and RAM to to take advantage of it.
zepearl 6y ago
I'm sending right now at home 7TB from my server to my NAS and it's taking aaages over my internal 1Gb/s ethernet network. Am I right thinking that there are (still) no SOHO network switches that can handle faster speeds (at least 2Gb/s) that don't have active fans & don't get hot and that aren't super-expensive? The last time I checked, about 1 year ago, I didn't manage to find anything.
- jlgaddis 6y ago
  I've not used one and can't speak to their quality but: > The CRS305 is a compact yet very powerful switch, featuring four SFP+ ports, for up to 10 Gbit per port. The device has a 1 Gbit copper ethernet port for management access and two DC jacks for power redundancy. The device is a very sleek and compact metallic case without any fans, for silent operation. [0] > Suggested price $149.00 --- [0]: https://mikrotik.com/product/crs305_1g_4s_in https://mikrotik.com/product/crs305_1g_4s_in
  - zepearl 6y ago
    Thank you - looks interesting, but they don't write in the specs if it has an active fan or not, right? (e.g. I see in the pics that this random model has fans https://mikrotik.com/product/crs328_4c_20s_4s_rm#fndtn-downloads https://mikrotik.com/product/crs328_4c_20s_4s_rm#fndtn-downl... but they're not mentioned in the specs)
    - jlgaddis 6y ago
      I didn't look through the specs in detail so I'm not sure, but according to the copy I quoted above: > ... without any fans ...
- wtallis 6y ago
  Anything with multi-Gig or 10GbE is still quite expensive, unless you score a good deal on used enterprise gear that will definitely have screaming fans. There are a few switches that have mostly 1GbE ports and a few 10G ports and are fanless.

I like like the bottle neck in the future will be Harddrive/SSD file read/write speeds. Honestly, I'd love to have my hands on a terabyte drive with 1TBps speeds.

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dahfizz 6y ago

I think latency of a network will always lag behind that of local storage. Even traveling at the speed of light, going around the circumference of the earth takes over 100ms. Obviously not all network requests go around the globe, but the fact that local storage is physically closer to your computer will always be a sizeable advantage.

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hutzlibu 6y ago
Plus the fact that cloud storage has to be stored on physical storage as well ...

rayiner 6y ago

It’s not even the future. 40 gig Ethernet is already faster than most SSDs. And you can get a card on eBay for $200.

IdiocyInAction 6y ago

Memory access latency is already the biggest bottleneck when it comes to optimization, both disk and RAM.

dasudasu 6y ago

Electro-optic conversion is expensive in terms of power, so you better be sure it's necessary. There are still some people looking at hybrid computers with both optics and electronics. To be practical, you'd need both to be realized in the same platform, but they don't exactly work on the same scales, and laser integration is a big issue.

coribuci 6y ago

> I like like the bottle neck in the future will be Harddrive/SSD file read/write speeds. No. It will be your ISP > Honestly, I'd love to have my hands on a terabyte drive with 1TBps speeds. You need also a fast processor and RAM to to take advantage of it.

zepearl 6y ago

I'm sending right now at home 7TB from my server to my NAS and it's taking aaages over my internal 1Gb/s ethernet network. Am I right thinking that there are (still) no SOHO network switches that can handle faster speeds (at least 2Gb/s) that don't have active fans & don't get hot and that aren't super-expensive? The last time I checked, about 1 year ago, I didn't manage to find anything.

jlgaddis 6y ago
I've not used one and can't speak to their quality but: > The CRS305 is a compact yet very powerful switch, featuring four SFP+ ports, for up to 10 Gbit per port. The device has a 1 Gbit copper ethernet port for management access and two DC jacks for power redundancy. The device is a very sleek and compact metallic case without any fans, for silent operation. [0] > Suggested price $149.00 --- [0]: https://mikrotik.com/product/crs305_1g_4s_in https://mikrotik.com/product/crs305_1g_4s_in
- zepearl 6y ago
  Thank you - looks interesting, but they don't write in the specs if it has an active fan or not, right? (e.g. I see in the pics that this random model has fans https://mikrotik.com/product/crs328_4c_20s_4s_rm#fndtn-downloads https://mikrotik.com/product/crs328_4c_20s_4s_rm#fndtn-downl... but they're not mentioned in the specs)
  - jlgaddis 6y ago
    I didn't look through the specs in detail so I'm not sure, but according to the copy I quoted above: > ... without any fans ...
wtallis 6y ago
Anything with multi-Gig or 10GbE is still quite expensive, unless you score a good deal on used enterprise gear that will definitely have screaming fans. There are a few switches that have mostly 1GbE ports and a few 10G ports and are fanless.