Is 125MB (or so) the fastest speed across a home network?

Combat squirrel · 5 Jan 2015 at 00:09

1gb network is spot on.

10GB is POINTLESS, don't forget most hard drives cannot write the data much faster than 110mb/sec anyway..........which is what a 1gb network will deliver.

If you have ANY sort of RAID as well (other than raid 0 - but no one should run that really), it will be much slower at writing than 110mb/sec anyway.

Just the way it is I Am afraid! No point in faster networks at home until most hard drive write speeds hit at least 500mb in huge quantity (1tb SSD still isnt enough, at least for me)

Caged · 5 Jan 2015 at 00:13

RAID10 on 15k SAS disagrees

bledd · 5 Jan 2015 at 07:49

Combat squirrel said:
1gb network is spot on.

10GB is POINTLESS, don't forget most hard drives cannot write the data much faster than 110mb/sec anyway..........which is what a 1gb network will deliver.

If you have ANY sort of RAID as well (other than raid 0 - but no one should run that really), it will be much slower at writing than 110mb/sec anyway.

Just the way it is I Am afraid! No point in faster networks at home until most hard drive write speeds hit at least 500mb in huge quantity (1tb SSD still isnt enough, at least for me)

SSD are on the verge of becoming far more viable. My 1gb links have been fully saturated for years, especially with ssds in the mix and multiple clients.

With NAS drives on the rise too, iscsi drives would tacky benefit from quicker links also.

Jez · 5 Jan 2015 at 08:53

I dont see the need for all of the complaints directed at gige, any half decent switch will support port trunking/aggregation anyway. :confused:

Chimp Paradox · 5 Jan 2015 at 11:52

my ssd are doing 400MB a second transfer speeds?

james.miller · 5 Jan 2015 at 12:13

and how often do you need that?

Chimp Paradox · 5 Jan 2015 at 12:14

it can never really be too fast - especially as we are moving into an error of more and more digitisation and larger files sizes

james.miller · 5 Jan 2015 at 12:17

That doesnt answer my question

Let me bore more specific; how often are you transferring files over the network where 1gbps becomes a viable bottleneck?

KIA · 5 Jan 2015 at 12:24

Enthusiasts are in desperate need of reasonably priced 10GbE kit.

Chimp Paradox · 5 Jan 2015 at 13:49

Not a bottleneck, but like having a fast CPU for photo editing it beats waiting

SiriusB · 5 Jan 2015 at 13:58

KIA said:
Enthusiasts are in desperate need of reasonably priced 10GbE kit.

This would be awesome! I don't actually need 10GbE but back in the day I didn't really need 1GbE, either!

bledd · 5 Jan 2015 at 14:18

Currently switches are ~£600+
10Gbe ethernet cards ~£250+

nutcase · 5 Jan 2015 at 14:28

Switches are the hard part. If you don't mind used, NICs can be had for £25 up or so.

Caged · 5 Jan 2015 at 14:45

A lot of the 'cheap' 10 gig stuff is 10GbaseT as well instead of SFP, which pushes the adapter costs way up.

Chimp Paradox · 6 Jan 2015 at 19:04

Ive installed the devolo apapters and im now getting 33MBs, rather than 11 on my TP link. Pleased with that!

Chimp Paradox · 7 Jan 2015 at 11:17

Is 33MBs acceptable?

Bonjour · 7 Jan 2015 at 11:19

MB/s or Mb/s?

33MB/s is brilliant for powerline.

bledd · 7 Jan 2015 at 11:26

lol..

Complaining about gigabit being slow, then being happy with 33MB/s

HEADRAT · 7 Jan 2015 at 11:32

Bonjour said:
MB/s or Mb/s?

33MB/s is brilliant for powerline.

Indeed, that's pretty nice.

nutcase_1uk said:
Switches are the hard part. If you don't mind used, NICs can be had for £25 up or so.

Then don't use a switch, surely you can just cable point-to-point, just setup a separate logical network for fast transfers over 10 Gig interface

Chimp Paradox · 7 Jan 2015 at 16:45

Bonjour said:
MB/s or Mb/s?

33MB/s is brilliant for powerline.

MB. Here is the product. Its very good. For maybe 10 second or so it goes along at about 22 then it ramps up. There is something clever in it.

http://www.devolo.com/uk/Products/dLAN-1200+