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bwDraco

21:59

Best deal of the year on 10GbE network adapters! anandtech.com/show/12067/…

DavidPostill

@bwDraco ???

scan.co.uk/shop/computer-hardware/pci-pci-e-add-in-cards/…

5.99 UKP

Why are you paying $59 in the US?

Is Black Friday in the US an excuse to increase prices?

That Brazilian Guy

We have the shittiest black friday prices ever =/

DavidPostill

@ThatBrazilianGuy lol. You live in BR. Why is this a surprise for you?

That Brazilian Guy

Who said it is a surprise?

It was a surprise the first time I saw a black friday sale here circa 5~7yrs ago.

But we have Halloween parties, so...

DavidPostill

@ThatBrazilianGuy Ah. Halloween. Carve a pumpkin and get reduced prices on all your hardware (not).

djsmiley2k

22:12

@DavidPostill erm, that's 1Gbe

Not 10... xD

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k Now I'm confused. 1000 Gigabit is not 10Gb?

djsmiley2k

those cares you linked are 10 mb

100, 1000mb

DavidPostill

@djsmiley2k The first link said 10/100/1000 Gigabit PCI Ethernet card LN49162

Canadian Luke

Just a gigabit card, @DavidPostill. We haven't mastered terrabit PCI communication yet :P

djsmiley2k

yeah thats your average card for a desktop

@bwDraco is talking about 10x that

the discriptions are terrible

10/100/1000 refers to megabit

DavidPostill

22:19

So why does it say Gigabit?

djsmiley2k

because why say things accruately? ;~)

because it's known as a 'Gigabit network card'

i.e. 1Gb max

1000Mbit = 1Gigabit

DavidPostill

Huhmmph. Time to complain to the ASA ;)

djsmiley2k

;)

there's no 1000 gigabit cards

so it could never be that

Hennes

Hmm, still to expensive to switch over from my old 10Gbit NICs (SPF+)

But an affordable mixed 10GBit switch would be nice.
(with a few SPF+ sockets, and few few new 2.5/5/10 format sockets

Canadian Luke

Plus, do you have the speedy-enough CPUs, RAM and storage devices to transfer that for more than a second or two?

Hennes

22:28

NVME SSDs go a logn way

Not sure if I can fill 10Gbit, but I can push more than 1Gbit

And old 10Gbit NICs aqre cheap. Typically Eur 35 for two.

Both old the older Mellanox X2's (which I have) and currently the same for the X3's.

ebay.com/sch/items/…

bwDraco

@Hennes The SSD I have can saturate a 10GbE link both ways.

Hennes

I got a Samsung MZVP512 (M2 NVME) as OS disk. A much slower Cruscial CT1023MX200SSD1 (yes, very cheap and slow for an SSD) as general data disk and a 4TB rotating rust bucket for movies, music and isos.

the receiver has the 256GB version of the disk,
And it tended to have HW RAID with 4 1TB disks and 2 2TB disks.
The last will probably change.

Practical network speed was about 8.5 out of the 10.

djsmiley2k

so generally what are you moving, that require it be done that quickly?

just outta interest

or is it a fact that you can afford it, so why not?

Hennes

Not much. Backups.

Last time I backups to a directly attached SATA disk it took 6 hours.

I want to pump that over to a backup server.
Connect to DRAC, power up the old dell R300.
Rsync.
Shutdown backup server

And playing with SPF+ was a nice bonus.

And testing how to move VMs (a la home lab) over 10Gbit speeds would also be nice

all int he 'just playing because it is fun part'

Not something I really need

Hennes

22:53

As for the X-3's. It was the shipping which put me off these fun cards:

ebay.co.uk/itm/…

bwDraco

23:47

Well, large network transfers don't happen often. I've moved data between systems using direct Ethernet connections during migration (Wyvern [old HP laptop] to Dragon, and more recently Dragon to Astaroth). If I'm backing up data, 95% of the time, it's to a USB direct-attached storage device.