I still think file serving should be done by dedicated cache hardware. If a gigabit ethernet switch is tiny, and ram and SSDs are pretty low power, we should be

I still think file serving should be done by dedicated cache hardware. If a gigabit ethernet switch is tiny, and ram and SSDs are pretty low power, we should be able to make a low powered cache box that can serve tens of gigabits on a few watts. We really should think of optimization from the start if we want to do it at all. How much of that 250GB actually changes between updates? What kind of changes would be needed to be able to only scan changed files? Some of that stuff is easier to address at the start. But all in all, computers seem to almost always be more efficient than whatever analog thing they replaced, even if they are occasionally slightly less enjoyable(see Blockbuster vs Netflix)