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bhoustonyesterday at 7:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

FYI: you should upgrade to 10gbe if your network is slow. It isn't that expensive these days: https://ben3d.ca/blog/home-network-lessons


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avtaryesterday at 8:04 PM

Not sure if you've looked into this but you can ditch Bell's router with one of these:

https://store.10gtek.com/1-25g-media-converter-sfp-slot-with...

Or a non-copper equivalent in your case. You just need to use the VLAN IDs that Bell expects, see https://www.reddit.com/r/bell/s/uUltTdyqFC

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kube-systemyesterday at 8:12 PM

That's still only 1/3rd of a single U.2 or a 6th or single U.3 drive... and the IOPS over SMB/NFS is significantly lower than a local drive, even with a big ethernet pipe.