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[LazyGamer]

Local mass storage for me is a pair of 8TB spinners in a mirror with... whatever technology Windows uses to do that.

Of course that's temporary, I have TrueNAS Scale (the Debian-based port of FreeNAS) running across the room for more permanent mass storage.

Edit: adding that you can run BTRFS on Windows. I do this on my laptop where I multi-boot quite a bit, and this provides a fairly seamless shared storage transition. Don't think you can install to BTRFS, though, but all the drive spanning features are there.

 

[Endgame]

Local mass storage for me is a pair of 8TB spinners in a mirror with... whatever technology Windows uses to do that.

Of course that's temporary, I have TrueNAS Scale (the Debian-based port of FreeNAS) running across the room for more permanent mass storage.

Edit: adding that you can run BTRFS on Windows. I do this on my laptop where I multi-boot quite a bit, and this provides a fairly seamless shared storage transition. Don't think you can install to BTRFS, though, but all the drive spanning features are there.

I’ve got the free NAS nearby as well. Near enough I’ve considered just doing a cross over cable between my primary workstation and the NAS. The only thing stopping me is I just have no use case that needs that much bandwidth to the NAS.

 

[Zarathustra]

I’ve got the free NAS nearby as well. Near enough I’ve considered just doing a cross over cable between my primary workstation and the NAS. The only thing stopping me is I just have no use case that needs that much bandwidth to the NAS.

I have a dedicated 10gig fiber from my desktop to my NAS.

Also, you haven't needed crossover cables since the 90's. Because of MDI-X just about every piece of hardware out there will autodetect crossover and switch on its own.

In fact, I don't think you can even make a gigabit or higher crossover cable. it no longer meets the standard.

 

[Endgame]

I have a dedicated 10gig fiber from my desktop to my NAS.

Also, you haven't needed crossover cables since the 90's. Because of MDI-X Jjst about every piece of hardware out there will autodetect crossover and switch on its own.

In fact, I don't think you can even make a gigabit crossover cable. it no longer meets the standard.

Well the last time I made a cross over cable was back in the Dorms, probably 2000 ish. I have no idea if it was technically necessary, but it worked to copy a few GB of mp3s between systems without having to use the dorm networking and without having to buy a 10/100 switch. Gbit was technically available, but who had the money for that?

 

[Brian_B]

I see crossover cables required occasionally on industrial stuff - but a lot of that is still using RS232/435 Serial as the main connection and 10/100Mb ethernet is still "cutting edge". Although I'm slowly starting to see CAN bus being adopted.

 

[Zarathustra]

I see crossover cables required occasionally on industrial stuff - but a lot of that is still using RS232/435 Serial as the main connection and 10/100Mb ethernet is still "cutting edge". Although I'm slowly starting to see CAN bus being adopted.

Yeah, as I recall (I'd have to go back and verify) the IEEE standards still support using crossover for 10BaseT and 100BaseT, but that this was removed from 1000BaseT due to the way the strands needed to be utilized for maximum bandwidth.

So if you try to flip the two wires and make a gigabit cable a crossover cable, you might get a link light, but it just won't work.

Luckily MDI-X autosensing was incorporated into the standard at that point, so crossover cables weren't needed anymore. All gigabit+ hardware should be autosensing for crossover at this point, or it is not standards compliant.