10 Dec
2020
10 Dec
'20
6:53 a.m.
I bet your backups across the gigabit switch to your NAS are (small) incrementals.
You'll care about having 10gigE when you try a restore from backup.
We have a very persistent problem with storage capacity versus I/O bandwidth, which I
metaphor as "swimming pools of data, which we fill & drain with garden
hoses." How many terabytes of stable storage do you have at home?
Further, LANs have always lagged local I/O bandwidth (across PCI, PCIe, etc), independent
of the nastiness introduced by latency and less-than-ideal data transfer protocols. Unix
"diskless" workstations were only tolerable because the disks were still
expensive and there were good reasons to share.
Erik