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One decade later: 1 GbE means hosts are capped at 4 to 6 simultaneous 4k bluray streams, or loading a single 400GB game per hour. Still fast enough for most con

One decade later: 1 GbE means hosts are capped at 4 to 6 simultaneous 4k bluray streams, or loading a single 400GB game per hour. Still fast enough for most consumers. Outside of a home lab, only maybe a NAS and one or two hosts transferring lots of bulk data there need bigger pipes, and even then 10GbE usually means "throttled by disk speeds or computational protocol overhead" (e.g. Samba on a slow CPU; anecdata: I see about 200MB/s over SMB on my 10GbE fiber link, but invested zero time in optimizing things). And in professional environments I'd be surprised to see 10GBASE-T instead of an equivalent fiber (less power draw = less heat, also better scaling; only drawback might be when replacing legacy copper cabling).

jayd16 5y ago
Are games regularly in the 400GBs now?
- RamRodification 5y ago
  No. Maybe 200. Usually less.
- rickosborne 5y ago
  Looking at the storage on my PS5, the largest game on it is the preload for "Horizon: Forbidden West" which goes live next Friday. It's 88GB. It's an open world RPG with several dozen hours of gameplay. "Returnal", about a year older and a much shorter game, is the next largest at 60 GB. Toward the bottom of the list are "Maneater" and "Life Is Strange: True Colors", both clocking in at about 15GB and as many hours of gameplay. Having said that, your net connect isn't going to help with games. I have Starlink, which generally sits in the 150-250Mbit range. That should have taken about an hour to download 88GB. It took 7. The CDNs for game delivery aren't exactly speedy. (And that's pretty common, in my experience. Even in my last place when I had gigabit fiber, I generally left the console downloading overnight.)
  - fathyb 5y ago
    Worth noting PS5 games are compressed using Kraken and decompressed via an hardware decoder. Same games can be twice as big on PC or Xbox.
- bloqs 5y ago
  Latest COD is 140GB
- archi42 5y ago
  I'm not in the loop here, most of the games I've installed from steam are in the 1GB to 20GB range, with a few outliers up to 80GB (I guess). IIRC some recent AAA games are in the 200GB range due to HQ textures. So I think 400GB games are realistic within the next decade. But honestly, it was just a random example. Just s/single 400GB game/400GB of whatever/ ;-)

jayd16 5y ago

Are games regularly in the 400GBs now?

RamRodification 5y ago
No. Maybe 200. Usually less.
rickosborne 5y ago
Looking at the storage on my PS5, the largest game on it is the preload for "Horizon: Forbidden West" which goes live next Friday. It's 88GB. It's an open world RPG with several dozen hours of gameplay. "Returnal", about a year older and a much shorter game, is the next largest at 60 GB. Toward the bottom of the list are "Maneater" and "Life Is Strange: True Colors", both clocking in at about 15GB and as many hours of gameplay. Having said that, your net connect isn't going to help with games. I have Starlink, which generally sits in the 150-250Mbit range. That should have taken about an hour to download 88GB. It took 7. The CDNs for game delivery aren't exactly speedy. (And that's pretty common, in my experience. Even in my last place when I had gigabit fiber, I generally left the console downloading overnight.)
- fathyb 5y ago
  Worth noting PS5 games are compressed using Kraken and decompressed via an hardware decoder. Same games can be twice as big on PC or Xbox.
bloqs 5y ago
Latest COD is 140GB
archi42 5y ago
I'm not in the loop here, most of the games I've installed from steam are in the 1GB to 20GB range, with a few outliers up to 80GB (I guess). IIRC some recent AAA games are in the 200GB range due to HQ textures. So I think 400GB games are realistic within the next decade. But honestly, it was just a random example. Just s/single 400GB game/400GB of whatever/ ;-)