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Do you need to have 10GbE? That is very high end kit, especially with copper. The power consumption is extreme and the distances are never going to be very good
by selectodude 4y ago
Do you need to have 10GbE? That is very high end kit, especially with copper. The power consumption is extreme and the distances are never going to be very good compared to fiber.
2.5GbE ethernet is super accessible now from Netgear, Trendnet, TPLink etc and doesn't require new NICs on any newer desktops. All my shit that 2.5GbE is useful supports 2.5GbE.
- mardifoufs 4y agoI'm not sure actually, I have a local NAS/Server rack where I store work related datasets (think a few hundred/thousands 12-15GB .h5 files). And while I definitely don't need instant or even super fast access to them, I'm sure it wouldn't hurt either. We already have tons of optimizations and usually process datasets in a cloud environment with "good" IOPS/Network[1] speeds, but it is still faster to use locally in some situations. 10Gbe gear would be a nice to have to avoid bottlenecks within the LAN... but I just realized that I'm making a good case for just shelling out more money instead of cheaping out haha. [1] As good as it gets on Azure, I guess. Which is not much at all, even on Ultra SSDs so I keep a local cache for smaller scale stuff