ASUSTOR Releases Long-Awaited 10-Gigabit Ethernet Expansion Card

[Raevenlord]

ASUSTOR Inc. has launched the AS-T10G 10G Base-T network card to provide customers with the ability to upgrade their devices to the fastest speeds available for consumers. The AS-T10G supports 10GbE speeds and is backwards compatible with 5GbE, 2.5GbE, 1GbE and 100MbE speeds while sporting an RJ-45 port. ASUSTOR ADM, Windows, Linux, Mac OS and VMware ESXi are all supported, allowing flexible installations.





The AS-T10G is pre-installed with a full-height bracket and comes with a half-height bracket for easy installation in thin computers. The ASUSTOR NAS bracket for the AS7008T and AS7010T can be purchased separately to upgrade to 10GbE speeds. ASUSTOR offers a variety of 10GbE NAS, including, but not limited to the AS4002T, AS4004T, AS7008T, AS7010T, AS7009RDX and the AS7012RDX, allowing workstations and ASUSTOR NAS devices to communicate at ever higher speeds, no matter the budget.

AS-T10G Specifications:

Supports:

• 16KB Frames
• IEEE 802.3x Ethernet Flow Control
• IP, TCP, UDP checksum offloading
• Supports 100MbE, 1GbE, 2.5GbE, 5Gb/s and 10GbE speeds
• 802.1Q Virtual LAN (VLAN) tagging

Supported standards:

• IEEE 802.3ae: 10-Gigabit Ethernet
• IEEE 802.3x: Ethernet Flow Control
• IEEE 802.2ad: Link Aggregation
• IEEE 802.1Q VLAN
• RFC2819 RMON MIB

Specifications

• Maximum speed:10 Gbps
• Duplex Mode: Full Duplex
• Interface: PCIe 2.0 x4

Operating System Support:

• Windows 7 and above (32/64-bit)
• Windows Server 2012 and above (32/64-bit)
• Linux 2.6.x and above (32/64-bit)
• MacOS 10.10 and above
• VMware ESXi 5.1 and above, Microsoft Hyper-V, Linux KVM, Oracle VirtualBox

Size: 82 x 62 x 13 mm

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[Octavean]

Price would be nice,...

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Price would be nice,...

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

 

[TheLostSwede]

damn 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...
https://www.edimax.com/edimax/merch...al/smb_network_adapters_pci_card/en-9320tx-e/
This is still a $100-ish product though.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

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...
https://www.edimax.com/edimax/merch...al/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.

 

[TheLostSwede]

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.

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. https://wikidevi.com/wiki/ASUS_XG-C100C

 

[BadFrog]

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

 

[FreedomEclipse]

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. https://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

What 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

 

[64Power]

What 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.

 

[steen]

damn 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

 

[TheLostSwede]

What 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...

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.

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.

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

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...



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?

 

[Octopuss]

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

 

[TheLostSwede]

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?

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 https://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.