IMO one of the biggest frustration I currently have with homelab-scale gear (and edge compute in general) is how everything has massively regressed to only offering 2.5gbit connectivity at best.
Try to find one of these hundreds of small form factor products that has anything faster than a 2.5Gbit nic and despair! What good are these machines if you cant even get data in and out of them?!
The list of hardware with 2x10GBe or better connectivity is amazingly short:
- Minisforum MS-01
- GoWin RS86S*, GW-BS-1U-*
- Quotom Q20331G\*
From major manufacturers, only the following:
- Mac Mini (1x10gbaseT option, ARM, )
- HPE Z2 Mini\* (1x10GbaseT option)
Please someone, anyone, build a SFF box with the following specs:
Minimum of 2 NVMe
Minimum of 2 additional storage devices (SATA or more NVMe)
Minimum of 2 10GbE
Dedicated or shared IMPI/OOBM
Minimum of 8 Core x86 CPU
Minimum of 64GB RAM
Make sure the nics have enough PCIe lanes to hit their throughput limits, give the rest to storage. Stop with the proliferation of USB and thunderbolt and 5 display outputs on these things, please already!
Try to find one of these hundreds of small form factor products that has anything faster than a 2.5Gbit nic and despair! What good are these machines if you cant even get data in and out of them?!
The list of hardware with 2x10GBe or better connectivity is amazingly short:
From major manufacturers, only the following: Please someone, anyone, build a SFF box with the following specs: Make sure the nics have enough PCIe lanes to hit their throughput limits, give the rest to storage. Stop with the proliferation of USB and thunderbolt and 5 display outputs on these things, please already!