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Re:Building a NAS by melp on Monday April 10, 2017 @04:33PM (#14082270)
I might get that new consumer-grade switch with 10GbE copper, but that's down the road a bit.
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Re:Building a NAS by cm2187 on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @02:49AM (#14085436)
I wonder when we will see 10GbE ports on laptops though!
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Re:Building a NAS by bluedino on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @08:08AM (#14086887)
Promise sells a ThunderBolt to 10GbE adapter

https://www.promise.com/Products/SANLink/SANLink2

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Re:Building a NAS by viraptor on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @06:06AM (#14086287)
What would be the consumer for that kind of flow? It makes sense on switches, but for a single device, it would be hard to find a reason. We can do 4kUHD way under 1Gbps. We don't get over 1Gbps internet at home. We can't write that fast to any permanent medium. Even RAM will slowly start being a problem if the DDR4 bandwidth is only 6 time higher than 10GbE.
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Re:Building a NAS by cm2187 on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @06:41AM (#14086443)
Consumers do buy Synology & Others NAS. Right now 1Gbps is the bottleneck for accessing a NAS.
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Re:Building a NAS by cat199 on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @10:31AM (#14088121)
This depends on the storage configuration & use case..

It can be a bottleneck for a NAS-

That said, depending on use case, the extra expense of 10GbE still might not be worth the expense..

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Re:Building a NAS by cm2187 on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @12:27PM (#14089644)
There are very few disks you can stick in a NAS that won't yield 100MB/s, particularly in RAID.
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