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My slowest SSD can push 4Gb/sec, it’s nice to run full-rate between machines.
by zionic 5y ago
My 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.