I’ve been experiencing what I think is port congestion using my built in 1GB Ethernet ports on my motherboard (SuperMicro X10SLL-F) and thinking about trying 10G connected to one of the SFP ports on my Netgear ProSafe GS724T switch. Could use some recommendations for best cards supported by unRAID.

Edited December 14, 20187 yr by wgstarks

sfp = 1gbps

sfp+ = 10gbps

 

look into link aggregation if your switch supports it.

 

otherwise, to answer your question (which won't really help with your issue) look for a connectx2 Mellanox card. many come with the dac cable for 10-20 bucks on eBay.

24 minutes ago, 1812 said:

sfp = 1gbps

sfp+ = 10gbps

Thanks. Looks like it’s going to need more hardware than I had hoped.

1 hour ago, wgstarks said:

Thanks. Looks like it’s going to need more hardware than I had hoped.

 

microtik makes 24 port switch with 2 sfp+ ports, fanless for about 139. https://www.amazon.com/Mikrotik-CSS326-24G-2S-RM-Gigabit-Ethernet/dp/B0723DT6MN/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1544809632&sr=8-7&keywords=microtik I think it's about the cheapest you can get that many ports plus sfp+ and still have it not sound like a jet engine.

 

I haven't used it, but have been heavily considering getting one to replace my quanta lb4m. If noise/power isn't an issue, you can get one of those off eBay for 40-60$. 

 

 So either of those,  plus a Mellanox card, a few adjustments to your network settings, and you're in business!

That looks like it would be perfect for what I need since it will also support vlan tagging for my WiFi guest network. Thanks.

if you wanna go Mikrotik route with 4 SFP+ ports, then there is a new small item for that: https://mikrotik.com/product/crs305_1g_4s_in. as of price, i think it will be near 150$ too..

20 hours ago, wgstarks said:

Thanks. Looks like it’s going to need more hardware than I had hoped.

If you don't need to pass through a switch I set mine up peer to peer with 2 mellanox cards

8 minutes ago, mrbilky said:

If you don't need to pass through a switch I set mine up peer to peer with 2 mellanox cards

P2P between 2 cards in the same machine?

Nope sorry have a dual port card in my sever a a single in each of my 2 rigs must of mis-read what you were trying to do

My Deluge docker tends to hog my two 1G ports that I have bonded. Sometimes causes problems streaming videos. I’m hoping moving everything to a 10G port will help solve that.

3 hours ago, wgstarks said:

P2P between 2 cards in the same machine?

I've done this for a vm that needed a faster connection to the array.

 

I've also done this with one card, a solar flare dual port. Split the ports between the vm and the server, then plugged  the two ports into each other. It worked pretty well, but I no longer do this out of simplicity.