Why is 10 Gb Ethernet still so expensive?

deuse · 14 Jul 2020 at 14:58

HEADRAT said:
Intel drivers for NIC can be found here:

https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www.../500-series-network-adapters-up-to-10gbe.html

Grabbed the Complete driver pack

Thanks

EDIT=I bought that cable from ebay. Hope it's the right one

mattmos · 15 Jul 2020 at 11:47

Got to say I'm loving my 10Gb network now its up and running. Can copy a 5Gb file at 1.1Gb /s

Being able to scrub through HD/4k footage/multiple input sources for comp is so nice, without having to localise everything.

mattmos · 15 Jul 2020 at 11:48

Next step is nvme storage when prices come down a little further.

ChrisD. · 15 Jul 2020 at 11:54

What's your storage device @mattmos?

HEADRAT · 15 Jul 2020 at 11:59

mattmos said:
Got to say I'm loving my 10Gb network now its up and running. Can copy a 5Gb file at 1.1Gb /s Being able to scrub through HD/4k footage/multiple input sources for comp is so nice, without having to localise everything.

Can you share your setup, apologies if you've already done so

mattmos · 15 Jul 2020 at 12:35

For storage have a:
QNAP TS-473-8G NAS server
QNAP LAN-10G2SF-MLX network adapter
And single 2Tb mx500 ssd atm, have some older raid hard drives to add in.

Just got a switch to be able to connect more workstations, which is:
QNAP QSW-1208-8C 10GbE Unmanaged Switch - and have twin sfp+ cables which are trunked together between nas and switch.

workstations are built on the asRock trx40 creator using the aquantia 10Gbe.

HEADRAT · 15 Jul 2020 at 13:04

Nice, thank for the info.

Why wouldn't you want to just have this storage local?

mattmos · 15 Jul 2020 at 13:48

HEADRAT said:
Nice, thank for the info.

Why wouldn't you want to just have this storage local?

I'm working on animation projects, atm with one other, but hopefully bringing more people in. An element of future proofing involved I guess, but we all need to access the data, and copy/stream large files to/from pretty regularly.

BongoHunter · 15 Jul 2020 at 13:56

mattmos said:
For storage have a:
QNAP TS-473-8G NAS server
QNAP LAN-10G2SF-MLX network adapter
And single 2Tb mx500 ssd atm, have some older raid hard drives to add in.

Just got a switch to be able to connect more workstations, which is:
QNAP QSW-1208-8C 10GbE Unmanaged Switch - and have twin sfp+ cables which are trunked together between nas and switch.

workstations are built on the asRock trx40 creator using the aquantia 10Gbe.

Nice setup - how do you find the Qnap switch? I'm looking at the netgear options at the moment but that qnap is similar price range

HEADRAT · 15 Jul 2020 at 14:11

mattmos said:
I'm working on animation projects, atm with one other, but hopefully bringing more people in. An element of future proofing involved I guess, but we all need to access the data, and copy/stream large files to/from pretty regularly.

Oooh sounds exciting

mattmos · 15 Jul 2020 at 14:12

BongoHunter said:
Nice setup - how do you find the Qnap switch? I'm looking at the netgear options at the moment but that qnap is similar price range

Its great, pretty idiot proof (thankfully). I'm not running vms or anything complex, but it handles a mixture of sfp and GBe just fine, and is completely silent - was a bit worried about the small fans but no issues there. Front leds are easy to read and tell if something is running at full speed, or 1Gb/s, or having issues. Still feels expensive for what it is, but no complaints other than that.

deuse · 15 Jul 2020 at 19:48

mattmos said:
Got to say I'm loving my 10Gb network now its up and running. Can copy a 5Gb file at 1.1Gb /s Being able to scrub through HD/4k footage/multiple input sources for comp is so nice, without having to localise everything.

Nice one

Just had my qnap and 16gb memory upgrade has just came..
And 5 X 4TB toshiba HDs from @ocuk

Setting it up now

mattmos · 15 Jul 2020 at 22:02

deuse said:
Nice one

Just had my qnap and 16gb memory upgrade has just came..
And 5 X 4TB toshiba HDs from @ocuk

Setting it up now

Nice, are you going raid with those? Let us know how the nas does.

deuse · 16 Jul 2020 at 07:45

mattmos said:
Nice, are you going raid with those? Let us know how the nas does.

I won't be able to get the 10GB working till next week now.
The person I bought a cable from(ebay) has none now Grrrrr

So I bought a HP 10GbE SFP 3 Meter DAC Cable 487657-001 new SFP+ which I hope is the right one?

Armageus · 16 Jul 2020 at 08:26

deuse said:
So I bought a HP 10GbE SFP 3 Meter DAC Cable 487657-001 new SFP+ which I hope is the right one?

Yep that's fine

deuse · 16 Jul 2020 at 08:28

Armageus said:
Yep that's fine

Thank you again

Looking forward to getting it all setup.
It's a pity my Qnap 853a hasn't got a pci slot.

deuse · 18 Jul 2020 at 10:49

Everything has and connected.

10gb nas to my PC and it says I'm connected @10gb

But I have a problem.
The Nas will show up in windows 10. But if I try to double click to open I get and error "check the spelling of the name ect"

Should I use 1 of the 1gb lan ports on the nas to get it on the net?
Confused like hell

Oh and windows has given the 10GB ports 169.254.93.200 and the other one is 169.254.231.29

ChrisD. · 18 Jul 2020 at 14:27

You need to give them both static IP addresses.

deuse · 18 Jul 2020 at 15:31

ChrisD. said:
You need to give them both static IP addresses.

Thanks.

I will try that now.
Do you think I should have the nas connected to the net via the 1gb lan port?

ChrisD. · 18 Jul 2020 at 15:38

Yes of course.