Does 10G nics for home servers actually do anything? I have a gigabit router and the motherboard on my server is 2.5G. Wouldn’t the 10G be throttled once it hits the 1G router and then only send out that speed to all other devices? Would I actually be getting better speeds than what I pay for also?
I have my PC connected to my NAS directly, with only NIC - Cable - NIC, and it helps with large transfers.
But honestly I only did it because I moved my drives from my PC to the NAS, and did not want to downgrade from the SATA SSD speeds.
Its acutally a DAS now, not a NAS
The NAS is still connected to the rest of the network, through the 1Gbps port.
My NAS has 2x 2.5G NICs and my PC has one, and other than that everything in my network is Gigabit.
What I did is bridge both ports on the NAS, connect one port to the network and the othed to the PC. This way I have 2.5G between my PC and NAS, but the PC still has internet connection thanks to the bridge, all without the need for a 2.5G switch.