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realitista@lemmus.org 22 hours agoWhy do you feel you need 10Gbit? I only just upgraded mine to 2.5gbit when I went WiFi 7 and doubt I will even have one endpoint doing that any time in the near future, considering it will max out the wifi router even at that speed. I don’t expect multiple at the same time for many many years.
Future proofing, at some point I will go 2.5gb sync or higher on my Internet pipe, the connection I think can go 10gb sync with some upgrades to the local exchange.
Also because I can, and almost everything else I own for my back haul already has 10gb ports and the bandwidth to support it including my router and all my switches.
Do I need it? Absolutely not, its just fun to do and the only reason I haven’t done so yet is cost of suitable hardware.
Yeah I tend to wait until I could at least hypothetically use it because you pay a big premium to “future proof”. 10Gbit is still too pricey for me to roll out.
Its not that bad if you go with mikrotik, but their configuration isn’t for everyone as its a long way from say Asus in terms of simplicity.
Their budget 8x10gb is about £220, pretty reasonable for a fully managed switch. Sure its not going to let you max out all 8 ports at the same time with multiple vlans even with the hardware offload, but whose expecting that from a budget switch?
I am never really going to benefit from it fully, not least in the short to medium term. What I will get is the fun from upgrading.
I upgraded because my local system’s storage is all(mostly) server-side. Having 10Gb vs 1Gb(or 2.5Gb) is noticeable when loading things like games or image/language model weights. I’ve been considering getting the hardware to bond 2 connections, but I don’t imagine that I’d see much noticeable performance improvement (but the benchmarks would look pretty!)
That makes sense. I have a NAS but I use it more for backups
Just throw up an NFS export and use fs-cache: www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/…/fscache.html
It works pretty well, the only annoyance is if your NAS isn’t on it is pretty annoying but that rarely happens (unless a failed upgrade nukes both your graphics firmware and the package manager at the same time and you have your server’s USB ports disabled for security reasons so fixing the problem requires disassembling your server cabinet, server case and extract the hard drive to which you need to grab hard copies of recovery from a safety deposit box… in which case, chin up… it happens to all of us. x.x;)
Oh I know it’s possible, I just don’t want to do it, I have enough troubles in my life ;-)
silly question, how do people find the need to have 1 or more Gbit uplink, I have .5 Gbit and honestly I feel like it is overkill
I only did 2.5gbit because that’s the max my WiFi 7 network could handle. I don’t think I will ever max it out in real world usage.
worhui@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
A home server with an SSD can reasonably saturate 1000MB/s. An actual home use case can be made for 10Gig.
realitista@lemmus.org 9 hours ago
Yes, if you want to put all your data on your NAS and access it remotely, it can make good sense. I wouldn’t personally do it, but it’s a valid reason to do it.