r4ptor Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 My current bottleneck is my connection to the server, one which im planing to eliminate soon. Is there any good Dual port 10Gbe SFP+ NIC card that will work out of the box and isnt that expensive? I looked through the forum and found several suggestions, so far I found these: Chelsio CC2-N320E-SR Chelsio T320 Mellanox Connectx 2 Intel X520 Are there any more 10Gbe card which works with unraid that you recommend? Quote Link to comment
mrbilky Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 (edited) 5 minutes ago, r4ptor said: My current bottleneck is my connection to the server, one which im planing to eliminate soon. Is there any good Dual port 10Gbe SFP+ NIC card that will work out of the box and isnt that expensive? I looked through the forum and found several suggestions, so far I found these:Mellanox Connectx 2 Are there any more 10Gbe card which works with unraid that you recommend? Mellanox Connectx 2: I have 3 of these cards and they worked right out of the box 1 dual port and 2 single port for peer to peer setup of 2 rigs to my unRAID box remember your limited by distance as these SFP+ cables are relatively short Edited November 23, 2018 by mrbilky Quote Link to comment
r4ptor Posted November 23, 2018 Author Share Posted November 23, 2018 1 hour ago, mrbilky said: Mellanox Connectx 2: I have 3 of these cards and they worked right out of the box 1 dual port and 2 single port for peer to peer setup of 2 rigs to my unRAID box remember your limited by distance as these SFP+ cables are relatively short What short distance? are you refering to DAC cables? Quote Link to comment
mrbilky Posted November 24, 2018 Share Posted November 24, 2018 13 hours ago, r4ptor said: What short distance? are you refering to DAC cables? Yes I have no experience with with cat6 or fiber for 10GBe the cards I purchased were server pulls 10 meters seems to be the limit but I think there are a few that may be longer but cost goes up considerably Quote Link to comment
Alexander Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 (edited) OK my post is not for SFP+. This tip is for copper 10 Gb. I think any card with the Aquantia 10 Gb chip works with linux. I have that chip on my ASRock motherboard and it is recognized as a 10 Gb port by unraid as it is with all linux since a while back. So I guess this card: https://www.anandtech.com/show/11598/asus-launches-xgc100c-10-gbe-adapter-aquantia-aqc107-99 and other ones with that chip will work. These are for "normal" copper ethernet cables. Cat 6 cables OK to 55 m length. Cat 6a and 7 OK to 100m length, witch is the length the twisted copper cable standards are made for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twisted_pair#Building_infrastructure I do not have anything connected to my "future proof" 10 Gbps port that is > 1 Gbps so I have not tested that it really works but I think it will. Edited December 16, 2018 by Alexander Quote Link to comment
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