November 22, 20241 yr Please forgive me as I'm posting here after not seeing a networking thread, I hope I'm in the right spot. I purchased an old 8 bay Qnap device for my first Unraid experience. This device, a TVS-871, was originally built with (4) 1Gbe NICs but after receiving the unit I see the previous owner populated both expansion slots with dual 10Gbe cards for a grand total of 8 NICs (4 are 1G and 4 are 10G). I can't figure out why, seems like massive overkill to a noob that has everything on 1Gbe. My initial thought was to remove the cards and sell them to recoup some $$ but I keep thinking I'll regret it. What can I do with them? a router maybe? I certainly don't need to future proof a device that's already old.
November 22, 20241 yr At a guess it may have been used for something like pfsense. If your network is segmented with vlans you can run those on different hardware, pair them for redundancy, or dedicated hardware for a bunch of VMs... Are the 1gbe non-removable? If so they may have just been ignored (I do that, dual 10g SFP+ and unused onboard 1gbe). Whether it's worth a "maybe" keep or sell will still have to be something you sort out.
November 22, 20241 yr Author Yes, the 1gbe's are non-removable so maybe you are right that they were ignored. Also, I hadn't thought of dedicating a NIC for a VM but makes total sense. As for pfsense, maybe that's a future project I can learn about. Thanks.
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