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Ethernet is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
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this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2023
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Maxing out 1 Gb/s was no issue with HDDs 15 years ago. Maxing out 10 Gb/s is no issue with SSDs today. 1 GB/s is nothing for them. You would need 100 GB/s to have a buffer for the next 3(?) years, then it will be maxed out again.
In any case, a backup can take 1 or 10 hours, seems irrelevant in a non-commercial environment. Since people will be backing up to large HDDs in the foreseeable future, 1 Gb/s is just fine. 18 TB HDDs could potentially be 2x faster, say 200 MB/s. Not much to gain.
On a side note, I put cat7 everywhere back in the day. Maybe 150 meters.
The whole 1gb is fine sounds like the old "nobody will need more than 64k of ram" is all
It has been almost 25 years and it is still perfectly fine for almost everyone. By the time it will not be good enough anymore, those "almost everyone" are not going to run cable anywhere. Wireless has long replaced wired connections for the vast majority of people. If anything, it will have to be based on USB-C.
And while RAM went up and up and up back then, 16 GB have been standard for 10 years now. The development is at a point with diminishing returns.