Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year

• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I frequently transfer data over the LAN at a higher rate than my internet connection.

  Kinda wish it was easier to test the connection speed between devices tbh, unless someone knows a good way of doing it but many devices are so locked down I am not sure how you would.

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  • hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Even when doing that, the bottleneck is the storage write speed. you can have 1Tb internet connection and it wouldn’t matter unless you have enough users in a home.

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    • patatahooligan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      NVMEs are claiming sequential write speeds of several GBps (capital B as in byte). The article talks about 10Gbps (lowercase b as in bits), so 1.25GBps. Even with raw storage writes the NVME might not be the bottleneck in this scenario.

      And then there’s the fact that disk writes are buffered in RAM. These motherboards are not available yet so we’re talking about future PC builds. It is safe to say that many of them will be used in systems with 32GB RAM. If you’re idling/doing light activity while waiting for a download to finish you’ll have most of your RAM free and you would be able to get 25-30GB before storage speed becomes a factor.

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      • hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        That is true, given everyone used good quality nvmes, which is not always the case, but honestly, 1Gbps fiber is enough for a home with multiple users. Even if, assuming the storage is not the bottleneck, unless you need often very large lan transfers should be more enough with 1Gbps.

        Anyway, I guess i’m sidestepping the initial topic. bottom line: cool cheap tech for companies, not so much for home users.

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not all data transfer is sending stuff to storage, streaming your display live at a high bitrate for example never needs to go into storage.

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      • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Is more than 1Gbps needed for that? That seems insane, but I’m old and watch stuff in full HD so what do I know.

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