Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoEven HDDs can max a 100mbit connection.
Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoEven HDDs can max a 100mbit connection.
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Are you saying you’d be loading all that data strictly over the network instead of having a local copy that gets synced periodically? That would be terrible on a 100 mbit/s line… If that was my workflow, I’d run 10 gbit/s cable everywhere and make sure clients had at least 2.5G.
I use my NAS for local backups and streaming when we watch something as a family. 100 mbit/s would be fine for that use case.