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2.5 Gbps worth it? 7200 rpm drives worth it? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by Gomeology@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Hey peeps

so ive been debating if its worth upgrade my switch to 2.5 gig connections. The only devices that would use this potential would be my pfsense, proxmox vms running all my docker services, and my nas (5400 rpm drives). I do use nfs quiet a bit but I only have 1 gig up and down from my isp. If i were to upgrade the switch I would prob upgrade my unifi AP to the enterprise edition to support that as well. I'm still digging in to if any devices are actually saturating the 1 gig links but I also like to future proof stuff. so the price tag would be around 1400 bucks. 2 2.5 gig AP's (u6 ent) and a 2.5 switch (ent 24 poe). Also, if anyone has any insight into 7200 drives for my nas I've been hesitant due to posts saying vibration/heat gets worse but the 5400 drives dont support anything over 10ish Tb's and im trying to get up to 20 Tb a drives. or maybe all SSD? Any insight or suggestions are appreciated.

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[–] eattherichnow@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Unless you’re doing, like, editing on a NAS, the main reason for 2.5 would be concurrency - maybe you’re watching a video, downloading something from steam, copying shit from the NAS, maybe there’s three of you and we’re talking the link to the switch.

Careful with future-proofing. Gear isn’t eternal, not even ssd, nor can you predict how your needs will change perfectly. I do have SSDs in my server-that-acts-as-a-NAS, but that’s the reason: it’s primarily my “pet” home server, I do “local stuff” via ssh on it. If I ever attach external mass storage to it, you can bet it’s gonna be spinning platters, valuing reliability over performance by a wide margin.