| > enterprise dlink switches "enterprise" DLink switches aren't really a thing yet, regardless of what their marketing team wants to brand them as. :( Cisco, HPE, etc have "enterprise" switches. DLink might be in a decade. > it is hard to saturate a 10gbe connection with a single NAS, unless it is packed with SSDs No, it's just a matter of having enough spindles behind it. As a rough guide, with a (say) average spinning rust HDD able to push out 100MB/s when reading, you'd only need 10 such drives to push out 1000MB/s (raw). In the real world, you need extra spindles as some of the data being pushed out is just internal checksum/redundancy, and doesn't go over the network. But for reading back large files in mostly sequential access, you'll hit 1GB/s from about 10 drives onwards pretty easily. More drives, more throughput. |