Gigabit networks becoming a bottleneck

bremen1874 · 18 Feb 2017 at 23:54

Presumably you'll still suffer from the same issues that result in the transfer of many small files taking far longer than the transfer of a few large files?

I only ever find Gigabit to be a limitation when I'm moving larges files around. For those times I let it happen in the background.

moogle · 19 Feb 2017 at 08:48

bremen1874 said:
Presumably you'll still suffer from the same issues that result in the transfer of many small files taking far longer than the transfer of a few large files?

I only ever find Gigabit to be a limitation when I'm moving larges files around. For those times I let it happen in the background.

I'd assume so yes, I would love to get at least gigabit speeds around the internal network, but having 10GbE (or faster!) would be nice.

bledd · 19 Feb 2017 at 08:51

VMs, video editing storage, faster backups/restores. Plenty of good reasons for faster network. I can't fathom why people seem so set against it.

Armageus · 19 Feb 2017 at 10:05

Depending on use case surely "bonding" 2 or 4 gigabit ports via LACP etc is viable?

Whilst it doesn't help if you are only transferring from 1 client, if you have 2 or more then it will provide an increase in effective bandwidth.

Some of the mid range synology etc have 2 or 4 ports so can do this.

Sp00n · 19 Feb 2017 at 12:39

Don't think anyone's against it, it's just relatively expensive still.

Caged · 20 Feb 2017 at 21:45

I think 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T will appear on the Netgear and TP-Link switches of the world at some point, which is really the most likely option to be cost-effective if bonding isn't viable. Expect to see it on the Qnap and Synology boxes of the world and probably some riced up 'gaming' routers.