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The market at work. There is just no real demand for anything beyond 1G. The HN crowd is not representative of what would be needed to drive the price tags dow
by gooroo 4y ago
The market at work. There is just no real demand for anything beyond 1G.
The HN crowd is not representative of what would be needed to drive the price tags down on 2.5G stuff.
- hinkley 4y agoIf you have a gigabit internet connection, then most of the value of 10G comes from data sharing within the intranet, which just never caught on outside of hobbyists. And a 1G switch can still handle a lot of that, You don’t even need 10G for LAN parties, and whether backups can go faster depends on the storage speed and whether you actually care. Background backups hide a lot of sins. I’m hoping a swing back to on-prem servers will justify higher throughput, but that still may not be the case. You need something big to get people to upgrade aging infrastructure. What would be enough to get people to pay for new cable runs? 20Gb? 40?