Re:Building a NAS
by cm2187 on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @02:49AM
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I wonder when we will see 10GbE ports on laptops though!
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Promise sells a ThunderBolt to 10GbE adapter
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.
Consumers do buy Synology & Others NAS. Right now 1Gbps is the bottleneck for accessing a NAS.
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..