all right guys it's not often I get this excited about something that comes in a
plain brown box and doesn't save Republic of Gamers all over it but this
is the oce 11102 NX this is a direct
attach Copper 10 gbit per second Ethernet adapter so it has SFP plus
connectors on it two ports PCI Express
4X I believe comes with a some stuff inside okay so what's special about
these These are the least expensive 10 GB per second capable adapters that are
out there well lonus why would you care about that because you know 10 GB per
second switches are Uber expensive comes with a lowprofile adapter comes with two
low profile adapters I think one of these ended up I I have a few of them so
and one of them didn't have one so I think they just come with one um so yeah
10 GB per second switches are so expensive lonus why could it even matter
to me the consumer that I can get a 10 gbit Ethernet card for under 300 bucks
well the answer I would reply is daisy
chaining these adapters and there are other ones too I actually got the wrong
ones I didn't want the SFP plus ones it was my bad there's a different part
number that can do 10 GB per second over cat 6 and Cat 6A which is just regular
RJ 45 connect well sort of regular I
think they've made some revisions but the point is much less expensive than
directed attach copper cables which will run anywhere from about 50 to a couple
hundred bucks depending on the length but they can go up to 40 ft and uh right
so there's cat 6 cat 6A ones there's these SFP plus ones why am I excited
about this because daisy chaining so they have two ports on them which means
if you wanted to have sort of a a here I drew a little diagram where's my little
diagram ah yes this is my plan that I've been working on for a while
so this is my server with the quad gig
Nick okay so server right there and then it's sort of one GB out to everywhere
else from there then that server could also have one of these bad boys that I
then run regular cat 6 to two other computers a capture computer and a video
editing computer so I'm going to show you guys why this is so exciting in just
a moment sorry guys baby's sleeping but
uh here's the config I'm using just for testing so there's one of the MX cards
and I've got a direct attach copper cable running down to another mux card
so that's a 10 gbit Nick here and that's my quad 1 GB Nick here so this machine
right here will have to have some network configuration done to allow this
network to talk to this network so that
these computers can all talk to this at one gig and these computers can talk to
these ones at one gig but that all the daisy chain 10 gig computers will be
able to do that now if you had a switch that would be better any switch with an
SFP Plus sorry about that any switch with an SFP plus uh set of connectors on
it will work for direct attached copper as far as I can tell although I could be
wrong about that one but uh here we go
so guys right now everything's pretty ghetto I just have the two cards
directly attached to each other so you can see it's working here 10 gabit per
second uh if we go ahead and look at the
status of the connection there it is 10 gbit per second no internet access cuz
like I said they're just direct attached but check this out okay so why do I need
this couple things number one here check
this out Uber file. mov this is a 5 minute media file that is 36 gigs for
video work you want to work with uncompressed whenever you can which
means I want to capture uncompressed from the camera to my black magic card
then I want to work with that uncompressed footage and that is very
very bandwidth intensive we've tried to do it on gigabit it's not even close so
check this out I can play this file back over the network no big
deal so there it's me talking about
something let me just move this off to the side I want you guys to see this
network usage you can see here that single gigabit would not have been
anywhere near enough this needs at Peak like if I'm scrubbing through the file
it's going to go up around 40% utilization on a 10 gabit per second
connection all right so the other thing about 10 gig is that you have to have
the horses on the other side to take advantage of it so my storage server
here with the Orica raid card whoops yeah you guys can't see that with the
Orica raid card has eight Seagate 3 tbte
drives in those bottom eight Bays so they are capable of producing up to 700
megabytes per second sustained reads and 500 megabytes per second sustained
rights that's way more than gigabit gigabits only about 100 megabytes per
second uh reads and wres
so right so yes so the 10 GB per second connection wouldn't do me any good
unless the storage on the other side was good enough to keep up with it so here
I'm going to do a quick demo where I'm going to take a few video files let's
say totaling about I don't know let's go
for let's go for around five gigs here guys what do we got here yeah there we
go 5.35 gigs and we're going to copy
these to the desktop here check this out
you guys are going to love this so you can see here it Peaks around 1.2 gab per
second which is freaking unreal and then we start to be limited not by the this
guy on the other side here cuz that was all like caching and memory and all that
but we're limited actually by the right speeds of the SSD in the rendering
machine which is here so guys what's exciting about this is that for about so
each card is about 280 bucks on NC for these ulex cards whether you get the
direct attach copper ones or the cat 6 cat 6 a ones which means you can build a
three computer gabit 10 GB daisy chain
for like 750 bucks plus cables so less than 1,000 bucks you can get these kinds
of speeds now for a general consumer watching your Blu-ray rips yeah not that
useful but if you don't want to spend several thousand on a switch invest in
you know $700 cards plus you know $800 $700 SFP
plus fiber modules blah blah blah and spend you know5 to 10 grand setting up a
10 gbit per second connection if you have a use for one whether it's for like
pro suumer video editing or whatever else this is actually very attainable
thanks for checking out this episode of lonus tech tips about my 10 gabit per
second connection experiment and don't forget to subscribe for more videos like
this from yours truly I screwed up my
outro whatever subscribe