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I'm starting to have trouble with my unraid setup, the network card dies on me, I believe this started happening after updating to 1gbps internet. Sometimes it can go a day and sometimes weeks before a crash. I updated to unraid 7.2.3 with no luck, and also tried installing the plugin for R8168 driver but then my unraid wouldn't get a correct ip, I believe i got a 169.254.x.x address. this is what network card i have on my msi b550 gaming gen3: lspci -nn | grep -i ethernet 2a:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 15) ethtool -i eth0 driver: r8169 version: 6.12.54-Unraid firmware-version: rtl8168h-2_0.0.2 02/26/15 expansion-rom-version: bus-info: 0000:2a:00.0 supports-statistics: yes supports-test: no supports-eeprom-access: no supports-register-dump: yes supports-priv-flags: no ChatGPT found this in my syslog-previous r8169 0000:2a:00.0 eth0: NETDEV WATCHDOG... transmit queue 0 timed out What are my options?

I guess I'll find out when it's time to order :), thanks for your advice.

I have a MSI B550 Gaming Gen3 motherboard, with a free PCI x16 slot that supports PCIe 3.0 x4 and 4x PCIe x1 slots. I've recently filled all 6 sata ports on this mobo and I want to expand with an HBA or something, what should I get and from where? (EU). I was looking at a Supermicro 9300-8i from aliexpress, but I don't know if that's the right choice? I'm going to use ordinary sata harddrives, atm I only have seagate exos.