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Not really, a 10 Gbps SFP+ can be had for $18. A 1 Gbps SFP is around $8. They continue to drop in price. With an SFP you can go 500 m tot 10 km, around $0,06 p
by morphle 6y ago
Not really, a 10 Gbps SFP+ can be had for $18. A 1 Gbps SFP is around $8. They continue to drop in price.
With an SFP you can go 500 m tot 10 km, around $0,06 per meter for a pair of fibers.
- topspin 6y agoYou're competing with something that costs a few cents. $8/$18 would be more than the value of some of the devices were dealing with here, and you need two. This is why Intel has at least twice now promulgated early specifications based on fiber and then fell back to copper; manufacturers won't build the products because users won't pay the price. There isn't a good solution here. People want neato fast stuff and they want it cheap, small and everything else that precludes good RF hygiene, and no one wants regulators interfering. It's intractable.
- seiferteric 6y agoSeems like a lot of cheap stuff does not need to be fast, so USB2 is good enough. I would like to have seen something like those audio aux jacks with built in TOSLINK inline like the old MBPs had. Maybe a USB2 port with an optional optical channel somehow squeezed in would be really neat.
- topspin 6y agoThis $19.99 USB storage device [1] has a read speed over 3x maximum USB2. Next year it will be $10. The year after it will be $5. Or some such curve. Good luck telling people that can't have it because you say so. Optical stuff has a curve too, but until it can compete with a bit of stamped metal inside a molding on price, it will be too expensive for USB. The market simply will not allow it. [1] https://www.bestbuy.com/site/pny-elite-x-fit-128gb-usb-3-1-flash-drive-black/5664105.p?skuId=5664105 https://www.bestbuy.com/site/pny-elite-x-fit-128gb-usb-3-1-f... Some problems are intractable.
- Spooky23 6y agoIdk... I bought a USB-C disk drive that is faster than a SAN I bought in 2016.
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