first-world problems: the *slowest* broadband plan I can get is 300 Mbps up 300 Mbps down. it's 50 USD/month without commitment. I don't even need that much! the fastest one I can get from the same ISP is 10 Gbps down 2.5 Gbps up, 345 USD/month.
3-4Gbps is easy with standard RAID on SATA rust with sequential I/O. Torrents are more IOPS-heavy, but at that point you'd set it up to download to an SSD/NVMe and move to HDD when complete. 461MB/s off my RAID6 at home. I always peg GigE with NFS.
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I had a rather unusual workload where I was downloading dozens of TB of torrents simultaneously (and it wasn't really worth going RAID or SSD anyway because hashing the blocks became the bottleneck slightly above random I/O being so)
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Fair enough. Personally, I could totally use a 1Gbps pipe since I shuttle data to/from servers often enough (backups, etc), but with a 100mbps connection my bottleneck tends to be the backbone. International peering seems to be getting worse rather than better.
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