10Gb Networking - Do You Need It? probably not...

I know a lot of people want the fastest speeds and will see 10Gb networking as a nice upgrade path to achieve this. However, it may not give you a speed increase at all depending on your use case. Let's talk about it.

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0:00 Intro
0:52 What is 10Gb Networking?
2:50 Network vs Disk Speed
4:44 Demos
9:10 Editing Video across network
10:30 Speed vs Bandwidth
11:36 10Gb Requirements
12:55 Cost Factor
13:26 Conclusion

[chrisjames]

While I agree, for many 'off-the-shelf' NAS solutions 10gbe definitely may not give the boost you would anticipate. For ZFS and some BTRFS solutions the caching mechanisms can give you a lot of that performance back. The ultra cheap 2.5gb NIC's definitely hit quite a sweet spot though.

[StephanieDaugherty]

Went the 10Gbit route (via OM4 fiber) for my home network a bit over a year ago, and my provider has since then upgraded speeds to 6Gbit symmetrical, even then, it's really rare to actually see anything near that outside of speed tests.

[shaniqualatoya]

Thank you for explaining this so clearly!

[ctrlaltdel]

Just purchased couple used NIC's and SFP's on ebay, complete setup with fibre got me around 120€ total for a dedicated 10Gb line from PC to NAS. Was running NAS for several years now, last year upgraded NAS hardware, that made it fastest storage in my home. In the meantime games get biger and I got decent amount of free space on NAS. So I decided to move my steam library to NAS too. New SSD for games with needed capacity would be aroun 300€+, getting used server stuff was just plain cheaper than getting new SSD. Plus it would make working with other files nicer too, not just games. Main network in house is still 1Gb as it is more than enought for general internet stuff.

[DavidDowns]

Dude, it's like I sat down across from you and asked the questions I had, and you answered all of them clearly and succinctly without an alphabet soup of jargon. I can't tell you how helpful this one video was in helping me make some decisions. I'm one guy (photographer/wanna-be video creator) in my house with my wife, and we won't be sharing a networked drive. I recently bought a Synology 1522+ with five 12tb Seagate Ironwolf drives. My primary concern is editing files stored on the NAS, particularly regardless of where I am, as I travel quite a bit. I've watched hours of video on this and still find myself stumbling with all the jargon being thrown around by guys who work in networks for a living, and I really just need a down-to-earth recommendation on how to set this up for MY needs. This video was created almost 3 years ago so I wonder what's changed, if anything, in your recommendations for someone in my position with my needs?

[bluegirlproductions]

Great video! I'm currently looking at 10GbE for centralizing my data to a server array; I run a multimedia production studio and all of our data is stored on individual computers, making collaboration extremely difficult. I've been on the fence about if it was the right move to go the 10GbE route, and I think you've just told me exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you!

[ArcangelZero]

Thank you SO MUCH for the sobering video about whether I'd really NEED that kind of bandwidth and speed. I'd like more people in the house to use the server I set up, but it's not there yet. Kinda pissed we get about 200-something Mbits on our main rigs over 5Ghz Wi-Fi when paying ~$155/mo to Cox for Gigablast though, so I wanna wire the house!
I'm thinking I'll invest in CAT6 cabling if I'm gonna go fishing cable and putting holes in the wall anyway, so I'll only have to do it once.
But I can definitely save a ton of money on proper equipment, knowing that 10Gb/s is mainly for bragging rights these days!

I've heard of 2.5Gb equipment being a lot cheaper, so maybe I'll look into that...
EDIT: The money I save can go to getting an ECC mobo + RAM for my scrappy Proxmox NAS. Thanks! :D

[intertan]

one thing that will help is a proper home network. A single 24 port switch will be better then a bunch of cheap 5 port dlink switches scattered around the house

[Shenmue]

When I started in IT, 10Mb networks were the standard. When 100Mbs came out minds were blown, people of today have no idea . So I laugh when I hear 1Gbs is slow. Sure for comparison to 10Gbs+ it is.... but you have no idea what it was like.

[BeepBeepNurseryRhymes]

Awesome video!! Very nicely explained. We produce 3D animation videos for kids. Recently bought an 80TB NAS server (with SSD drives). Our server to switch is connected to 10+10gig (paired 20 gig), and some 20 workstations (with SSD drives) are connected to switch with 1gig network. We are moving to a new and bigger studio where we will add another 10-15 users. Will put Cat6a for sure. We need to buy a new switch too, will it make sense for us to invest in a 48port 10 gig switch and upgrade all our networking to 10gig??

[magneticshrimp]

I completely lost control at some point and am currently at 40Gbps home networking for years now 🤨️ It was a good deal OK!!

Seriously though, cant wait for 2.5Gbps to become the new baseline.

[markjones]

I have looked at 2.5, 5, and 10Gb networking and honestly I don't see myself ever upgrading the Cat5 cable I installed in my house. I just bought my first home server this past year or so which is an HPE MicroServer Gen10 Plus. I'm only running open media vault with like 12 docker containers and a few VMs. I'm basically the only person who ever touches it. After I setup zfs on the 4 HDDs and transferred over all of my ripped movies, music, steam game backups, and personal files the files don't change very much at all. So no matter what speed I upgrade my network to it would largely go unused.

[rednassie]

Tell that to my impulsivity: I have a 10Gbit connection between my PC and server, but lately I have only really used my laptop on WiFi 😂

[Dexterx]

I don't need 10Gb, I need 1000Gb Networking 😂

[philharris]

At home my network is basically split out as an ‘upstairs’ and ‘downstairs’ network so I’m looking at using a pair of D-Link stackable switches that have 2 or 4 SFP+ ports to give me a 10GBe uplink between the upstairs and downstairs switches so that the machines upstairs aren’t bandwidth throttled.

[MG-mbmj]

tnx, this video just save me a lot of money (going for 1gb)

[MannyNCF]

This vid helped explain ALOT. Thank you

[PropMoneyStacks]

if possible everyone should have at least CAT6A Cable as it should be the new standard.

[mikelaicarpentier]

Thank you great video and clear info :)

[trinhk]

This is a fantastic video, thank you. This video definitely deserves more than 500+ likes. So in order to fully utilize the 10Gb network, I would first need to upgrade my main router that can support that. Doesn't everything branch from the router? Thanks!