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1 10gig vs 4 1 gigs

kostas0176
By kostas0176
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Link aggregation won't benefit you here since it would all be single source/destination it won't load balance. I would go for a single 10Gb link which will net you the gain in transfer speeds you're looking for, plus it's much simpler to setup.

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Ok, so i'm looking to upgrade the connection between my server and gaming rig, right now they share a 1g line, and i was wondering what would be more practical/cheap to do, buy two 4x1g cards or 1x10g, my server however will most likely never exceed 3gbps since read/write locally i'm seeing speeds of ~370mb/s. My server is running ubuntu server 16.04LTS and i am by no means a linux guru so some tips for configuring it would also be appreciated. Also, if 4x1gs is better, can i buy an 8 port managed switch dedicated for these two and, use the onboard 1g on my systems for internet and well, file sharing for everything else on my network?

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Link aggregation won't benefit you here since it would all be single source/destination it won't load balance. I would go for a single 10Gb link which will net you the gain in transfer speeds you're looking for, plus it's much simpler to setup.

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