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Seagate just reinvented the disk interface using E...
Fibre is not required to beat the 2.5Gb/s limit. Standard copper Cat 6a cables already support 10Gb/s for distances up to 100m.
justincormack
on Oct 25, 2013
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If people have 6A and you use a large amount more power. For an application like a hard drive the power consumption of the ethernet connection would be more than the rest of the system probably.
smithian
on Oct 25, 2013
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So use twinax.
wmf
on Oct 25, 2013
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Which goes back to "non standard cabling is likely to remain expensive for quite some time".
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