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I upgraded to 10Gbps and for the most part the difference is practically imperceptible. For extremely large files it makes a large difference but otherwise I h
by farmerstan 5y ago
I upgraded to 10Gbps and for the most part the difference is practically imperceptible.
For extremely large files it makes a large difference but otherwise I haven’t seen any difference at all.
The network card is more expensive, it generates more heat and uses more electricity. I pretty much regret spending the money to upgrade.
- zionic 5y agoMy slowest SSD can push 4Gb/sec, it’s nice to run full-rate between machines.
- willis936 5y agoBut then if you had 10G you wouldn't be running full rate of the line so you'd need to switch to an array of SSDs but then you wouldn't be running full rate of the line so you'd need to switch to 100G ethernet but then you would be limited by CPU/RAM performance so you'd need to buy a xeon/epyc but then...
- lazide 5y agoOr just buy a modern NAS, which will already have multiple NVMe drives, arrays of SSDs, and a decent number of spinny drives. outside of low end consumer kit, saturating 10G is easy with any modern equipment. Even 5G is easy with my 8 year old NAS.