Hacker News Reader

Comment by fulafel | Hacker News Reader

It's been 20+ years since 1 GbE came around, 10 GbE came in 2006, but for some reason the adoption has lagged hugely in SMB/consumer gear.

View on HN

1 Gbe is just marginally slower than consumer grade HDD and matches the fastest residential/SME internet connections. For most 1Gbe was a noticeable upgrade while 10Gbe isn't, while cost of hardware is noticeably higher.

10Gbe has decent adoption where it makes sense.

Modern systems have NVME SSDs which can easily fill a 10 gig connection, both read and write speed. It would be nice to see higher speed ethernet on more hardware. I have some 10 gig equipment but it's a couple generations old ebay special.

Disaggregated home SSD? Err, wow!

What do you mean by disaggregated?

SSD is certainly cheap enough for home NAS now.

One of my external HHDs can work at 250MB/s which means 2GbE. I'd like my home NAS to have at least a 2.5GbE NIC and my router/switch have to be 10GbE so as I don't saturate them while transferring from/to the NAS.

I also plan on adding a few 1080p@30fps security cameras and a centralised LAN host for all the video streams/backups. It will all add up quite quickly and I'm not even sure a home 10GbE setup will hold its own well in such conditions. I plan my buy an expensive switch/router combo with up to 320GbE bandwidth though, so it might work.

I believe 10GbE will be with us for as the de-facto prosumer setup for quite a while since 1.25GB/s is going to work for 99% of what's needed out there. (Although uncompressed 4k@60fps is almost 2GB/s...)

Its been an artificial market segmentation ploy used by a number of vendors. That ploy is now failing since the primary users of 10G have moved on to faster standards.

Now that I’ve been working on service provider routers for a bit, anything lower than 100G sounds slow. All about perspective, I suppose.

Ans we are finally starting to see residential high-speed internet at 1G becoming avaliable and widespread.

Bell Canada even offers 1.5Gbps internet and ships a router that only has 1GbE ports, so I had to jump through some hoops to remove the SFP+ from the router they gave me and get it working on my pfSense box. I'm still limited on most of my network to 1Gbps, but at least a few hardwired machines have access to the full 1.5Gbps/1.0Gbps and 10Gbps locally.

Things would be so much easier if all copper ports were at least 2.5Gbps, preferably 10Gbps.

That's some serious dedication!

I would like to upgrade my setup to higher speeds, but the cost of 2.5/5 Gbps networking gear is very difficult to justify. My entire kubernetes cluster is cheaper, and it's much better value/investment.

You could always bond a couple of 1Gbps ports together, not as elegant, but certainly something hackable with what you have perhaps and with that - cheaper and good stop gap to eek out a little bit more life.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com