alt Hacker NewsI just wish they had 2x5GbE like the Orion O6. i/o heavily matters for my compute nodes.
I wonder if 802.3ad bonding can bring 5gbit/s
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modeless • today at 3:40 PM
Seems like you could add that pretty easily via USB and/or M.2. Either should have the necessary bandwidth.
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It says that it has four 10 Gb/s USB ports (2 Type A and 2 Type C).
It is unknown whether the ports are independent, or some of them or all of them are connected to an internal hub.
Even if they were connected to a single CPU port through an internal hub, if you used two 5 Gb/s USB Ethernet interfaces you would get close to full speed for them.
Having 10 Gb/s USB instead of the so-called "5 Gb/s" USB (in reality 4 Gb/s), provides much more additional I/O throughput than having 5 Gb/s RJ45 instead of 2.5 Gb/s. I agree that having 5 Gb/s Ethernet would have been nice, but it is much more valuable that it has 10 Gb/s USB, which is very rarely encountered on Arm-based computers.