Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year
ftbd@feddit.org 10 months ago100MB/s are frustrating for a NAS. SSDs have been common for a decade, and the old spinning rust storage in my NAS is still faster than the network can handle?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Even HDDs can max a 100mbit connection.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 10 months ago
100 MByte/sec. 8 bits per byte, call it 10 when you include overhead / CRC / etc.
1000 mbit = 100 mbyte
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Sure. My point was that even for 100mbit/s, even UHD could probably still be streamed.
HDDs can probably max a 1gbit/s connection as well (often get 150MB/s sequential), which is more than sufficient for multiple IHD streams. Moving to 10gbit/s really isn’t needed for anything, and SSDs aren’t needed either to max a gbit/s network, unless doing random reads (i.e. lots of small files).
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 10 months ago
All true. But what if you aren’t just storing media for consumption? What if you’re doing photo editing, video editing, etc? If your NAS is either flash-based or has a flash cache, that extra speed can be really useful.