Dedicated NIC between two servers


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Hello,

 

I have seen a few posts on this but they were before the use of SSDs was more common etc. 

 

I have two servers, one is UNRAID (used for backup and databases mostly), and the other is a Debian system that I use for plex, owncloud, and webhosting. There is a fair amount of traffic between the two, backups and databases. I was thinking of getting two 2.5Gbps cards to connect them directly (don't have the PCIe slots for 10Gbps). 

 

Anyone doing this and do you think it was worth it?

 

Thanks,

Phil

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All my backup servers are directly connected with 10GbE, with some exceptions most are used for array to array backups, so speeds sometimes are not much faster than gigabit, but even when getting something like 150MB/s I find it worth it, still a large time difference for large backups, servers doing pool to pool backups can regularly go up to 250/300MB/s.

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