My network experiment

[Shadow_Storm56]

So I have been doing an experiment using 10g networking stuff that was built into my pc and I added a 10g card to my one server, mainly just an experiment because both computers have plenty of fast storage that can be used but it may be useful in the future. I have tried a variety of things such as playing a simple game such as runescape to running boinc tasks with the storage being to these network drives, I am curious of something though, it works ok but is not nearly as good as I would expect. Anyone else tried this sort of thing? how far did you get with it? How much could you do over the network? 

[Spotty]

Try a file transfer between the two and see what speeds you're getting over the network? Keep in mind you will need 10G on your PC, your server, and on your router/switch.

[Cyracus]

well, unless I'm mistaken, 1gbps is 125MB/s, 10gbps is 1.25GB/s. I don't know much about overhead and all, but if you should be able to test for full saturation if you have 3 ssd's on each system that can pull 425MB/s read/write (decent sata 3 drives) or 2 with over 650 read/write

[Shadow_Storm56]

13 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Try a file transfer between the two and see what speeds you're getting over the network? Keep in mind you will need 10G on your PC, your server, and on your router/switch.

it is literally setup directly from one to the other, no switch both computers have 2 networking cards so one is just acting as a link. 

 

12 minutes ago, Cyracus said:

well, unless I'm mistaken, 1gbps is 125MB/s, 10gbps is 1.25GB/s. I don't know much about overhead and all, but if you should be able to test for full saturation if you have 3 ssd's on each system that can pull 425MB/s read/write (decent sata 3 drives) or 2 with over 650 read/write

Right now it is just a WD black which seems to work ok but I can overload it and have things slow down, I am not sure if this is the network or the drive considering I rarely use HDD for anything more than mass storage now. I am going to change it to ssd at a later date, someday it could be useful but for now it's just fun. 

[Razor Blade]

There can be a lot of factors... Just having a 10Gb direct client to client network connection doesn't mean you'll be able to saturate it. Depending where your bottleneck is, you might be able to tweak some things to speed it up. For consumer SATA spinning drives in something like a RAID 5, 200-250MB/s transfer speed is probably about all you'll get.

[Cyracus]

11 minutes ago, Shadow_Storm56 said:

Right now it is just a WD black which seems to work ok but I can overload it and have things slow down, I am not sure if this is the network or the drive considering I rarely use HDD for anything more than mass storage now. I am going to change it to ssd at a later date, someday it could be useful but for now it's just fun. 

hdds peak out at transfer speeds around 140MB/s (7200 rpm) I haven't tested any 10k rpm drives or really bothered to look at how they perform, but I'd guess a max of around 180MB/s, try to transfer a big file so you give your poor hdd the best case scenario, if you get over 125MB/s your 10g would seem to be working

[Shadow_Storm56]

1 hour ago, Cyracus said:

hdds peak out at transfer speeds around 140MB/s (7200 rpm) I haven't tested any 10k rpm drives or really bothered to look at how they perform, but I'd guess a max of around 180MB/s, try to transfer a big file so you give your poor hdd the best case scenario, if you get over 125MB/s your 10g would seem to be working

I get 80 MB/S while running a game and boinc at the same time so I would say we are good. Plus I can see the status on the adapter settings and the data transfer is alot of that port and not much on the 1G one so I think we good.