Why doesn't anything have gigabit ethernet?

[iamdarkyoshi]

I'm trying to build myself a small nas.

 

I want it to be super low power. Right now, I'm using a laptop with a 9w amd cpu.

 

But it doesn't have a gigabit lan port.

 

So I looked around at work, and I found this guy:

 

Also not gigabit.

 

Wtf? I have pentium 4 computers with gigabit.

 

Can someone explain why none of this crap has gigabit lan?

[Hunter115]

because of easy cost saveings

[Electronics Wizardy]

Also a reason to buy a higherend product with 1gbe.

 

10gbe has been a thing for over 15 years now, its just that noone wants to pay the extra. If its a basic system, 100mb/s is more than enough for stream, web browsing.

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Also a reason to buy a higherend product with 1gbe.

 

10gbe has been a thing for over 15 years now, its just that noone wants to pay the extra. If its a basic system, 100mb/s is more than enough for stream, web browsing.

Thats like saying usb 1.1 is good enough for basic systems becsuse it works fine with a keyboard and mouse

[flibberdipper]

Its because they're incredibly cheap, and don't wanna drop an extra 30 cents on a better controller.

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 minute ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Its because they're incredibly cheap, and don't wanna drop an extra 30 cents on a better controller.

I just realized that both offending devices are HP. Perhaps the issue lies there.

[AresKrieger]

Wow my cousin has that exact board/cooler nonsense, and the reason it sucks is obvious it was made cheap as possible to save a dime

1 minute ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

I just realized that both offending devices are HP. Perhaps the issue lies there.

Yeah old HPs suck, they were always cheaping out

[flibberdipper]

3 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

I just realized that both offending devices are HP. Perhaps the issue lies there.

Yup. Hell, my grandma's desktop was in the era where 5GHz wifi was becoming fairly common (3-4 years ago), and it has some crappy 802.11 b/g/n thing.

[manikyath]

the cost difference between gigabit and 100mbit depends on the age of the platform, a lot of -especially cheap- low power platforms are based on older architectures that are downvolted to save power draw, and these platforms may have just originally been designed for 100Mbps.

 

and in terms of HP... my two 2006 HP shitbox pro's both have gigabit

[Sunshine1868]

Because saturating a GigE port is REALLY hard to do on a normal workstation/desktop. Hell, even power users (read: people who have a NAS and stream 1080p video from NAS to client box) won't peg a GigE...