On: Building a NAS

[cm2187]

I wonder when we will see 10GbE ports on laptops though!

[bluedino → cm2187]

Promise sells a ThunderBolt to 10GbE adapter

https://www.promise.com/Products/SANLink/SANLink2

[viraptor → cm2187]

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.

[cm2187 → viraptor]

Consumers do buy Synology & Others NAS. Right now 1Gbps is the bottleneck for accessing a NAS.

[cat199 → cm2187]

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..

[cm2187 → cat199]

There are very few disks you can stick in a NAS that won't yield 100MB/s, particularly in RAID.