Price would be nice,... :)

OctaveanPrice would be nice,... :)

damn expensive would be my first guess... This aint no TP-Link or Tenda we're talkin about here. sheeeeeeeeeeyat son!

FreedomEclipsedamn expensive would be my first guess... This aint no TP-Link or Tenda we're talkin about here. sheeeeeeeeeeyat son!

Considering it's 99% sure to be an Aquantia based based, it'll cost around $100.

Edit: I was wrong, it's Marvell based (at least the PHY) and it's actually something they bought in from Edimax...
www.edimax.com/edimax/merchandise/merchandise_detail/data/edimax/global/smb_network_adapters_pci_card/en-9320tx-e/
This is still a $100-ish product though.

TheLostSwedeConsidering it's 99% sure to be an Aquantia based based, it'll cost around $100.

Edit: I was wrong, it's Marvell based (at least the PHY) and it's actually something they bought in from Edimax...
www.edimax.com/edimax/merchandise/merchandise_detail/data/edimax/global/smb_network_adapters_pci_card/en-9320tx-e/
This is still a $100-ish product though.

THey are selling for £104+ on AmazonUK though from merchants located in spain, Italy and Poland, so £10-20 shipping??

However, I have no problem getting an ASUS XG-C100C 90IG0440-MO0R00 directly from amazon which is based off an Intel Chipset. If i was upgrading to 10Gig, i would take the Asus.

FreedomEclipseTHey are selling for £104+ on AmazonUK though from merchants located in spain, Italy and Poland, so £10-20 shipping??

However, I have no problem getting an ASUS XG-C100C 90IG0440-MO0R00 directly from amazon which is based off an Intel Chipset. If i was upgrading to 10Gig, i would take the Asus.

Uhm, you need to read up on your spec. The Asus XG-C100C is Aquantia based, 110%. It was in fact one of the first retail cards based on Aquantia's 10Gbps chipset. wikidevi.com/wiki/ASUS_XG-C100C

What switches are you guys using for 10gb networks? Old recycled enterprise L3 switches?

TheLostSwedeUhm, you need to read up on your spec. The Asus XG-C100C is Aquantia based, 110%. It was in fact one of the first retail cards based on Aquantia's 10Gbps chipset. wikidevi.com/wiki/ASUS_XG-C100C

My bad. A brief Google pulled up an X540 chipset on amazon but that was for a different product

BadFrogWhat switches are you guys using for 10gb networks? Old recycled enterprise L3 switches?

Not using 10gb atm. I dont even know where to go for switches and they sure as hell won't be cheap

BadFrogWhat switches are you guys using for 10gb networks? Old recycled enterprise L3 switches?

I am considering the SX10 from Netgear. The cheapest managed switch i can find. 10gbe to my computer and Link Aggregate 4 port to my NAS.

FreedomEclipsedamn expensive would be my first guess... This aint no TP-Link or Tenda we're talkin about here. sheeeeeeeeeeyat son!

ASUS <=> Edimax
Gigabyte <=> TP-Link

BadFrogWhat switches are you guys using for 10gb networks? Old recycled enterprise L3 switches?

Bought a "cheap" Netgear GS110EMX. It ended up being pretty cheap (around $190), since I bought from Amazon UK and live outside the EU, so I saved 20% on the VAT. It worked out cheaper than buying it from Amazon in the US at the time. They don't seem to ship those outside the EU anymore though... It does the job, but it's obviously not expandable, but as I only have 10Gbps in my PC and my NAS so far, it's not a big deal. Only downside is the UK power adapter...

64PowerI am considering the SX10 from Netgear. The cheapest managed switch i can find. 10gbe to my computer and Link Aggregate 4 port to my NAS.

I don't think link aggregation works as you think it does. You won't see any benefit at all for your single PC. Link aggregation only works well if you have multiple devices trying to access the NAS. There are ways around this, but it's complicated and might not work well.

TheLostSwedeBought a "cheap" Netgear GS110EMX. It ended up being pretty cheap (around $190), since I bought from Amazon UK and live outside the EU, so I saved 20% on the VAT. It worked out cheaper than buying it from Amazon in the US at the time. They don't seem to ship those outside the EU anymore though... It does the job, but it's obviously not expandable, but as I only have 10Gbps in my PC and my NAS so far, it's not a big deal. Only downside is the UK power adapter...



I don't think link aggregation works as you think it does. You won't see any benefit at all for your single PC. Link aggregation only works well if you have multiple devices trying to access the NAS. There are ways around this, but it's complicated and might not work well.

Well then, please explain to us why, if the drives in the NAS are dramatically faster then 125MB/s, why aggregate connections WOULDNT work better, since the 1Gbit Ethernet is the bottleneck?

I tend not to trust any other network chips than Intel.

TheinsanegamerNWell then, please explain to us why, if the drives in the NAS are dramatically faster then 125MB/s, why aggregate connections WOULDNT work better, since the 1Gbit Ethernet is the bottleneck?

As I said, when you have a server which is accessed by multiple clients, you gain a benefit on the server side, as it can push out more data to the multiple clients. However, a single client doesn't reap any benefit, even if it's connected to the switch with a 10Gbps, as in your case. You still won't see more than 1Gbps per client. However, if you use say four clients, in theory, each client would get 1Gbps of dedicated bandwidth to the server in your scenario, rather than the four clients ending up sharing a single 1Gbps link. This is because packets aren't split across multiple network cards, at least not in the case of LACP, which is the most common type of link aggregation. This might provide some more detailed information for you serverfault.com/questions/569060/link-aggregation-lacp-802-3ad-max-throughput/

As a side note, I tested this myself some 5-6 years ago, using a Synology NAS and a switch that supported LACP, as well as a pair of Intel NIC's that supported bonding. I got no perceivable performance improvement, but if I connected a second PC to the switch, the performance on the first PC didn't drop when both machines were accessing the NAS.