10G lan useful?

[Micha]

Hi,

is a 10G a big advantage for rendering? I suppose so network rendering could be started a few seconds earlier. Is it worth to think about 10G in comparison to 1G or are only a few seconds be saved?

-Micha

[Joelaff]

If you use large scenes and large assets like textures then definitely. Also, if you net render with tiled textures or VrayProxies it can be very helpful as well if you keep those assets on a network drive. Otherwise you will find nodes constantly pulling data from those formats during a render, which can really slow things down and clog a network.

I would watch you network usage while you render, especially your file server net usage. See how often the network interface get saturated and things are waiting on loading. If this happens a lot the faster network will help a lot. Otherwise, not as much.

If your renders take a long time to start using 100% cpu they may be waiting on resources (or doing some single threaded task like pFlow). Of course if your renders are a hour per frame the additional minute of loading on a slow network might not be a big deal. If it takes longer to load your scene than to render a frame you might need the faster network.

Look at the costs involved and then ask yourself what else could you buy with that money that would have a greater effect. I always look at the opportunity cost of purchases. It is often more than you think.

Good luck.

[Muhammed_Hamed]

Get 10G.. it is pretty cheap honestly to care about this.