16sfp ports is basically a single home office amount.
You got the outside wire to firewall, firewall to router, router to your pc, wife pc, kid pc, home NAS, and home server. Maybe another one to a poe switch for cameras and doorbells too. Nine ports needed with just a basic setup.
Oh. That’s a no brainer for anyone who regularly uses their network though? I have a 70gb music library I move around a lot for my mp3 player because I’m still playing with conversion settings. The difference between a 15 minute transfer vs a 3 minute transfer is huge if it keeps coming up. Before that it was large amounts of family vhs recordings getting moved. Platee has their own example just below me too.
1gbps is plenty for like, the family watching Netflix or YouTube or whatever, but anyone running a homelab will eventually run into long wait times when playing around with the server and nas at just 1gbps. Maybe you don’t care and just wait it out, but for me at least, part of the fun is getting new parts, and then actually seeing those parts getting used entirely. A 16 port sfp switch isn’t necessarily cheap, but around 300$ means it could be this months hobby purchase without too much fuss.
16sfp ports is basically a single home office amount.
You got the outside wire to firewall, firewall to router, router to your pc, wife pc, kid pc, home NAS, and home server. Maybe another one to a poe switch for cameras and doorbells too. Nine ports needed with just a basic setup.
I also converted my gaming rig into a hypervisor.
But I think they meant more along the lines of me running a 10gbps switch.
Oh. That’s a no brainer for anyone who regularly uses their network though? I have a 70gb music library I move around a lot for my mp3 player because I’m still playing with conversion settings. The difference between a 15 minute transfer vs a 3 minute transfer is huge if it keeps coming up. Before that it was large amounts of family vhs recordings getting moved. Platee has their own example just below me too.
1gbps is plenty for like, the family watching Netflix or YouTube or whatever, but anyone running a homelab will eventually run into long wait times when playing around with the server and nas at just 1gbps. Maybe you don’t care and just wait it out, but for me at least, part of the fun is getting new parts, and then actually seeing those parts getting used entirely. A 16 port sfp switch isn’t necessarily cheap, but around 300$ means it could be this months hobby purchase without too much fuss.
Nah, most people have an ISP provided router and have everything on WiFi.
People with a homelab and home network capable of 10gbps are a vast minority.
The nice thing about keeping most of my stuff on spinning rust is the throughput on the drives are just about the same as the network.