Unfortunately these days it's either painfully slow or painfully expensive. Individual disks have been able to outpace GigE for years, even ignoring SSDs and m

Unfortunately these days it's either painfully slow or painfully expensive. Individual disks have been able to outpace GigE for years, even ignoring SSDs and modest RAID configurations, and 10GigE isn't exactly sprinting full pelt into the general market, with cards starting at around £300 and the less said about the switches the better. It's very lame how I can pump out >400MB/s locally on a cheap NAS with some old spare HDs, but can never get more than about 80MB/s out of it over SMB. Thanks for helping make my backups take about 4x longer than they should, Ethernet. I'm half tempted to give a second hand InfiniBand setup a try, seeing as 10Gbit cards can be had from about £15.