2.5GbE is BETTER than 10GbE - Here's Why

Came here because I’m looking for AM5 boards and a couple of them support 10gb ethernet. Don’t really know if it’s necessary but guess I have to look up how speeds are here in Japan and even if my provider and router supports it, if it’s worth it.

Well I'm planning a DS923+ NAS. I'm considering a Netgear GS110EMX managed switch. Switch and NAS will be colocated. The Windows PC will be at most 24 feet from the switch. Which speed Ethernet cards would you recommend for the NAS and PC. I really don't think I need more than 2.5gb, and 5gb cards are hard to find. Can I put a 2.5gb into the DS923+ slot? Thanks!

Thank you man!

Thanks for the sensible advice

who the f is consuming LAN speed where this matters? average 4k tv file is 5-10gb so this level is unlikely ever need so this is all BSuntil 8k become a standard!

I went with a 10gb switch and router. Asus GT-11000 pro > TPLink TL-SX1008 (10gb 8 port switch) > 2 x Dlink DMS-106xt (1x10gb port, 5 x 2.5gb ports) > 2 x Asus GT6's. This will fit my needs for a while. Anything client side will just need to be upgraded as manufactures adapt with demand.

It's much easier in the Linux world than the proprietary mess of ifruit.

Hey there! I wander: one year later....are you still rocking the 2.5? Personally I will probably upgrade to 10Gbe anyway. As all the wiring in my house has to be redone anyway. Internet now enters in the oposite site of my house. As cable management is a bit tricky in my house, I will probably directly go for cat8. So that I'm set for the next decade or so :)

I’m unconvinced

Suppose I use a MacStudio with 10G port, can I connect to the DS1621xs+ 10G port with good bandwidth?

This dude is lost...

Thanks!

If I was going to use 10G I would just go Fiber optic. Funny, we have some 100G stuff at my work which actually uses copper, but use QSFP28 cables.

it's RARE that someone is going to use multi gigabit networking on a notebook. i'm not saying that you can't. clearly there are adapters to make it happen, but most folks who are going to run multi gigabit networking are going to be using a desktop or server form factor setup. for my desktops and servers in my house i've gone all 10g because it is significantly faster in transferring files particularly to and from ssd's or large RAID arrays. my workstation has a 4tb pcie4 and 2 4tb pcie3 nvme drives (capable of 7 and 3.5 gigabit/s transfer speeds respectively), it's got 128gb of ram as well which does a fantastic job of caching recently read and written files. it has an onboard aquantia aqc-107 10g base-t chipset. my primary NAS has 8 16tb 7200rpm hard drives in it in raidz3 and is cached by a couple of nvme ssd's and 64gb of ram it has an onboard aquantia aoc-104 10g base-t chipset. my secondary NAS has 8 10tb 7200rpm hard drives cached by a couple nvme ssd's and 64gb of ram and it uses an intel x540-t2 pcie 10g base-t network adapter. I use a pc based router running pfsense with another intel x540-t2 (2 10g ports one in from my frontier fiber ONT and one out to my 10g switch. I also run a hyper-converged proxmox virtualization cluster that hosts a variety of web and network services consisting of 5 dell optiplex 5060's, each with it's their own 512gb and 2tb pcie3 nvme drives, and intel x540-t2 dual port 10g base-t card (one port on it's own vlan for ceph software defined storage, the other for the services that the cluster provides, and a seperate gigabit vlan for management. my fiber connection is currently 2g symmetrical, but I'm able to go up to 5g symmetrical should I need it. tl;dr: 10g is perfectly valid for home prosumer use. I'm an IT consultant and do a bunch of video production and photography. Also FWIW, you don't HAVE to use cat5e/cat6 for 10g either... if you want a lower power solution (for a bit more money), you could go with an sfp+ switch and do either direct attached copper (DAC) cables OR, you could choose to futureproof your network and wire your home for om3 fiber cable. it's inexpensive, and can handle (currently) up to 100g on a single wavelength. if you use a multimode transceiver, you can gang multiple light wavelengths together - each wavelength is like running a separate strand of fiber and you can pretty easily go up to 1tb with a single strand, . when I buy my place in a couple years, I plan to do some renovations and get both cat6 and om3 in my walls, probably keep my 10g base-t gear and upgrade to sfp+ stuff piecemeal. Notebooks are fantastic internet appliances, writing appliances, etc. but it's not where I would want to do the majority of my work. Further, even when I use my notebook, it's usually to remote into my desktop which can then utilize my various network, storage, and compute resources.

I'm about to order a Synology NAS. I was going to get the OWC 10Gbe adapter but then I realized that my CalDigit TS4 has a a 2.5 Gbe port on the back. Can I just use this to connect to the NAS and not order the OWC?
Thanks.

Ha I'm going the other way ... E25G21-F2. Love the videos Rex. :-)

I'm new to networking so I may say something or ask something that might be obvious to gurus but not me.
I was planning on installing Ethernet throughout my house. I wanted to use an Omada system for the sake of simplicity and having everything talk to eachother. would a 2.5 network be sufficient for adhoc gaming and media or should I look at a 5g setup so as not to saturate 2.5?

Nothing better than 950MB/s , once you try it you can't go back. 10Gb > 2.5Gb Easy!

1gbps is indeed too slow to be the modern standard connector...especially for home or small office environment, however it is usable. 2.5/5gbps auto negotiation makes much more sense. Important stuff can be on 2-3 port lagp/lacp, such as switches, routers, servers, and nas.... 3x5gbps handles pretty much anything you throw at it. Why not 10G... historically, these generate too much heat and higher switch fan speeds(noise) while being much more expensive per port. Especially if you add 30-60w POE options on each port. 12 port 1/2.5/5gbps managed multigig switches with 250w POE budget will sell really well. Enterprise can have 25gbps uplink ports.