is a $70-$120 purchase worth transferring files 4x faster? the speed would be the slowest of the two. if you connect 2.5 and 10 together then you get 2.5.

if you're only transferring things one time from one to the other, then surely spending $0 and just temporarily moving the HDD/SSD from the old one to the new one would make more sense, no?

 

The transfer speed is only as fast as the slowest link - if you did want 10G speed, then one would need upgraded.

Is it worth it? Depends. I have a full 10G LAN and have my reasons

Something to consider; you might still not get the full speed if the storage can't keep up.

Basically SSDs or arrays of mechanical drives on both sides (or data sets in memory of course)

Edit: like Pook mentioned, moving the drives is probably easier/faster - and free

 

Yeah I see what you guys are saying. I was thinking of just picking up a used 10Gb card on ebay. I saw a couple below $30. But yeah it would probably make more sense just to connect those drives into the new computer. I'm just lazy to move them 😆

Okay... well thanks for the advice! Very much appreciated!

 

Well 2.5Gb is still pretty quick. Faster than a lot of hard drives can do. So if your files are on a hard drive. Than it doesn't really matter if you are using 2.5Gb. And for a 1 time transfer of files do really need it to be faster?

 

Depending on the 10Gb NIC, it may not do 2.5Gb. Some only do 1 or 10. Nothing in between. So, best bet for you is 2.5 to 2.5.

You will need to do some configuring to get direct connections working. Manually creating networks and handing out IP address for example. Only way to avoid this is connecting to an existing network with a DHCP server, like in your router. If you know how to do that, great. If not, you will need to do a little reading. It is not terribly complicated, but more work than plugging in a wire and just going.

 

Depending on the 10Gb NIC, it may not do 2.5Gb. Some only do 1 or 10. Nothing in between. So, best bet for you is 2.5 to 2.5.

Have an HP 10G switch that has this problem, but my Intel X550-T2 and Aquantia NICs just power om through, as an added example.

 

Unless you have a very nice setup, I doubt your file systems read / write speeds will saturate a 10 GB/s bus. 2.5 GB/s should be fine, right?

 

In general yes. It really does depend on the storage devices on either end - 2.5Gb/s is about as fast as single or mirrored spinners go.

In my case, I have more than that in a NAS, and more than one system that makes use of that data - and also have a switch coming this week to provide 2.5Gbit services.