Most people could do that with 1Gbps without any caching. If you want to run off fast remote SSDs, then yes, you may be able to exceed a 1Gbps connection. But if you&#x27;re willing to pay for a suitable switch and network card for your computer, you&#x27;d be better off buying a high end SSD for your home machine.<p>Most office networks I&#x27;ve dealt with have fileservers attached that couldn&#x27;t max out a 1Gbps connection at the best of days.<p>Of the rack fulls of servers I manage, we have a total of 2 unused 10GbE connections - this is fairly typical. Most peoples servers don&#x27;t yet have more than a couple of 1Gbps connections. So trying to max out a 10GbE connection is an exercise in frustration.<p>Yes, there are the rare exceptional circumstance where someone could manage to make use of it, but they are just that: rare and exceptional.<p>Yes, there will be a time we can max it out with ease, but it&#x27;s not there yet, and at the rate of adoption of 10GbE even for servers it won&#x27;t be anytime soon.