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Thank you for the comment. I have tested WOL on in total four different 10Gbe NICs: Intel X550T2 and 3 versions on AQC107 (TP-Link, Qnap and Synology) in my Unraid server. Non of them woke up the server, despite of indicated WOL in specs. TP-Link support service appeared to be very responsive and re-confirmed that WOL must be working. Then I have double checked the NICs on another motherboard (Gigabyte Aorus x570 Master) and WOL does work well with TP-Link TX401 and Qnap QXG-10G1T. Seems like Synology E10G18-T1 does not have WOL. Intel X550 has no working WOL and it is confirmed by Intel. So, my problem lies in a defctive or not comptible motherboard Asrock x570m pro4. Now I'm challenged to replace the motherboard and it seems there is no similar cheap mATX alternative on x570. The only non-Asrock option with 8-SATA I found is Asus TUF x570-plus. But this is ATX board and will lead me to a change of the Fractal Design Node 804 case to an ATX one. I decided to give it a try to build in a Fractal Design Meshify 2 (6x HDD holders is a standard set, optional up to 14). By the way TP-Link implementation of AQC107 is way better from all tested. Both Synology and Qnap have poor (smaller/thinner) heatsinks with 2 plastic pin mounts and completely dry thermopads underneeth. I hope these findings help anybody

Sorry for misunderstanding. Unraid does not have Wifi capability as I understand. Wifi shall be implemented in VM, right? Then the choice of equipment is on MB implementaiton and drivers for particular OS in VM, right? This might be the only way for the topic starter, but I have no experience with VMs on Unraid yet.

Thanks for the hint. Unfortunately I have only one physical LAN cable coming to this area. Shall assigning the IP be blocked on a router level? Right?

Hi everyone, I have a home server on Unraid, based on Asrock x570m pro4 and R7 pro 5750GE, which work fine in a combination. Mainboard has only 1Gbe LAN and I want to add 10Gbe NIC with RJ45 and keep only one connection to the router. That means on-board LAN will not be in use. My need is to have only one LAN connetiona with a possibility for WOL over the NIC. It works very well with on-board LAN from S5 state with enabled ACPI, but I could not make it working with either Intel X550 or AQC107 cards. Intel confirmed that the chip itself has a WOL capability, but it is not implemented in NICs. Then I tried several AQC107 NICs. Asus ASUS XG-C100C has confirmed that WOL is not implemented. Then I requested TP Link about WOL on TP Link TX401 and received an email, saying that WOL should work. Nevertheless, TP Link TX401 does not show any signs of WOL working at all and about to be returned back to the shop. I know there are also AQC107 implementations from both Qnap and Synology and I will try them as well. Did anybody have WOL working on AQC107 at all? Chip specs say it's capable, but I have not found any working implementation yet. thanks in advance

Hi, you can safely install QNAP QXG-2G1T-I225. It works well on Unraid.

As a hint, I have changed the SB fan to Noctua A4x20 FLX. Simply removed the useless heatsink and the build-in fan and attached the Noctua fan with the double sticky tape. Then it also needs to make an adapter for the fan, but it was easy using a cable from old GPU. Noctua is absolutely silent. I use it with R5pro 3400ge with ECC DDR. I have recently had to return the MB, because all of a sudden it started giving me 5 short beeps during POST, but the CPU works just fine. Waiting for the replacement

Hi, if the topic is still valid, I had the same question 6 months ago and I came to a conclusion that for a reasonable price I could get only one option. This is Asrock x570m pro4. It has 8 SATA ports and 2 NVMe. With the last BIOS update you can also have the SB fan stopped most of the time. It works in my NAS for about 5 months now with Ryzen 5 pro 3400ge and 4x16 ECC RAM. x570/x470 was the only choice for me as b550 does not support my CPU. with x570 mATX your choice is very limited. There are very few MBs to chose from. Other alternatives were MB from Biostar, but it's limited by SATA and Asrock Rack, but it's 3 times more expensive. Other chipsets implemented in mATX like b450 does not fit to NAS, because even if the MB has 6x SATA ports, 2x of them will switch off as soon as you install NVMe.