I'm on the opposite side of this spectrum, I find it hard to justify even the gigabit ones for personal use 😅 I'm mostly into text content on the Internet and I only get reminded of maximum network throughputs when I need to copy large amounts of video before going somewhere for more than a couple of days/nights — even in this case, storage is usually the main bottleneck 🤷 @kaia@brotka.st @flacs@mastodon.social
@m0xEE @kaia Yeah, I realize I work with some edge cases. At work we have a big video SAN/library system and have to transfer great gobs of gigabytes back and forth for video editing and production, so I have actually been in the situation of staring at a transfer running over gigabit lan and thinking "this is taking a while"
True, there are certainly use cases for that — especially in video production, in this case you can also afford SSD-based mirrored arrays to keep the storage end covered. But for personal use IDK — modern wireless standards, even those are more than enough for most of my needs. @kaia@brotka.st @flacs@mastodon.social
Ah kidding. It does make sense for us tech savy people so we can optimize where what device is connected without running into restrictions like with USB2 before.
I mean how many people were told "Just get a USB hub" to solve all problems making the problem worse in the end when every device would run over a single controller in the end - eventually even connected to the slowest port available?
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in reply to vxo • • •I'm mostly into text content on the Internet and I only get reminded of maximum network throughputs when I need to copy large amounts of video before going somewhere for more than a couple of days/nights — even in this case, storage is usually the main bottleneck 🤷
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Ah kidding. It does make sense for us tech savy people so we can optimize where what device is connected without running into restrictions like with USB2 before.
I mean how many people were told "Just get a USB hub" to solve all problems making the problem worse in the end when every device would run over a single controller in the end - eventually even connected to the slowest port available?
The real fun is finding the proper cable too!
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