I see it differently, I know some who need >1Gbit. For example, you cut HD movies and then have to move several GB (>20GB files) from the RAID6 SSD array to an internal server... I think there are still different applications here....
You don’t need Cat.7 for 1Gbit by a long shot. And no private person uses 10 Gbit. The costs are several thousand euros for the switch and fiber optic cables. People tend to just carry the SSD back and forth :p
I wrote >1Gbit and if I want/need to transfer about 400MByte, then Cat7 is required. How does that cost several thousand? The running meter costs €0.50 and the switch/panel as well as the cabinet together are somewhere around €500, it doesn't have to be high-end but must work well and stable.
I wrote >1Gbit and if I want/need to transfer about 400MByte then Cat7 is required. What costs several thousand there? The running meter costs €0.50 and the switch/panel as well as the rack together are somewhere around €500, it doesn't have to be high end but has to work well and stable.
If I want to transfer a net 400 Mbyte/sec.. I don't start with toy solutions :)
Well.. my prices are 2..3 years old. At that time I was more intensively dealing with the topic. The cheapest switch was a Netgear for nearly €3000. Network cards started at €800.
Switches can be replaced later without any problems. Replacing a cable is by far more difficult.
I also installed Cat 7. How fast data volumes increase can be seen from the change in hard drive sizes over the last 20 years.
20 years ago, home computers had a hard drive size of about 5 GBytes. Now we're talking about terabytes. So roughly a thousandfold increase. 100mbit/s has also existed for about 20 years. From this, you can roughly calculate what the relative state of the art in networks should be and how it will probably develop over the next 20 years.