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Where by "ultra fast" it is meant that it is much slower than a directly-attached SSD that occupies the same port.
So what's your point?
Not to take away anything from the fun of figuring out Thunderbolt on Linux, and such. But, I wonder if a NAS with a 40 Gbps or even 100Gbps NIC hooked up to a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter would achieve a better result without extra effort.
probably, but thunderbolt would cost 5x less for equivalent 40Gbps NIC
The cables and cards for PC Thunderbolt retrofit are far (like 3-5X!) more expensive than the MLNX cards and optical cables.
$0.02 :)
Not to take away anything from the fun of figuring out Thunderbolt on Linux, and such. But, I wonder if a NAS with a 40 Gbps or even 100Gbps NIC hooked up to a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter would achieve a better result without extra effort.
Where by "ultra fast" it is meant that it is much slower than a directly-attached SSD that occupies the same port.
That SSD has 0 redundancy so you're trading the purpose of the NAS by going for speed. If that's what you want, then you're wasting time looking at NAS equipment anyways. So what's your point?
There are also PCI-E x16 with multiple NVMe slots. There's nothing stopping some company from making something similar for Thunderbolt.
And I guess the cost is too high and the connectors would be too bulky, but it would be nice to have something like a SODIMM for flash that separates the memory from the controller.
this blog uses webp as image format without a fallback option. Had to switch to Firefox because Safari wouldn't display the pictures.
Odd. Displays fine on my Safari 14.1.2. Checked and the images do appear to be web for me as well. Current Big Sur release, not a Beta.
Not to take away anything from the fun of figuring out Thunderbolt on Linux, and such. But, I wonder if a NAS with a 40 Gbps or even 100Gbps NIC hooked up to a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter would achieve a better result without extra effort.
The fastest thunderbolt to ethernet adapter I could find is 25 Gbps and it's $1500. 10 Gbps ones are in the $200+ range as well.
Not to take away anything from the fun of figuring out Thunderbolt on Linux, and such. But, I wonder if a NAS with a 40 Gbps or even 100Gbps NIC hooked up to a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter would achieve a better result without extra effort.
The fastest thunderbolt to ethernet adapter I could find is 25 Gbps and it's $1500. 10 Gbps ones are in the $200+ range as well.
The dongle is QNAP QNA-T310G1S Thunderbolt 3 to 10GbE Adaptor, US$169 on Amazon.
What I really want is lightning quick network storage, but I don't think it would be feasible to roll out 10g networking in my current rental home.
Just yesterday I was thinking how badly I want an obscenely fast local datastore for Docker. I am managing a handful of clients right now who are all using Docker containers for their microservice environments and my local machine runs out of disk daily. What I really want is lightning quick network storage, but I don't think it would be feasible to roll out 10g networking in my current rental home.