Re; 10GB connections

[John Sica]

There are smaller, and cheaper switches of course, but I gave up on 
conversion to 10GB Nics when I realized that my backup 7200 rpm SATA 
drives could barely keep up with my 1GB network, and that I'd need SSD 
drives to actually gain any speed, and I wasn't willing to do that for 
backups... yet.

On 11/11/2020 2:02 PM, Microlite filePro Mail List via Filepro-list wrote:
> This will depend on your Dell server, and whether it has a PCIe 2.0, 3.0, or 4.0 communications bus.
>
> My old Dell server has PCIe 2.x, so I bough a Dell/Intel X520-DA2 SFP+ card.
>
> As an inexpensive way to get to 10GBe, and since I had to replace a switch anyway, I purchased a Netgear GS728TX.
> This has 2 10GBe copper ports, as well as 2 10GBe SFP+ (Fiber/Twinax) Ports.
> It also has 24 1GBe ports, so it connects everything in my server room.
>
> So my VMware servers are connected to switch via the 10GBe copper ports, and my Dell R710 server (re-configured for TrueNAS) is connected to an SFP+ port.
> A 1.5meter SFP+ Twinax cable was only $14.99 on Amazon.
>
> Don't expect 10 times the speed. It'll be faster, but your actual server and NAS speeds will still be your limiting factors.
>
> Tom Podnar
> Microlite Corporation
>
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> From: "Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
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> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 2:35:02 PM
> Subject: Re; 10GB connections
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> I have been considering connecting my server to my NAS via 10GB connection. I would have to purchase a 10BG network card for my Dell server.  The NAS already has a 10GB card installed.
>
> Any suggestions as to how best to accomplish this will be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Richard Kreiss
> GCC Consulting
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