In reply to a post by jchamier:

In the data centre we've installed 40gigabit networking, which is serious cost, but when you have clustered hardware running virtual machines it gets complicated...

Yup, I've only seen little bits of stuff on youtube, but understand the complexity of deploying 40gbe plus networking, and the even the requirements of having decent hardware to chuck 40gbe around a network.

long term i need to look at ssd speeds over a network (only two or 3 machines) so 10gbe i think would be a good half way house between spending too much money and having decent speeds. I'm tempted to try 2.5gbe first though.

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Hehehe. The Synology is a NAS box rather than a modem, but in any event well worth slotting in a 10 GbE card if you’re in the habit of shifting large amounts of data in and out of one and the rest of your network is suitably wide.

I know Synology are mainly NAS boxes (I have one), but they also do modems and I assumed (perhaps wrongly) the OP was referring to the possibility of being able to upgrade those to 10GbE.

In reply to a post by Tacitus:

I know Synology are mainly NAS boxes (I have one), but they also do modems

I don't think any of their router products have a built in DSL modem, as outside the UK most telcos supply a DSL modem or cable modem, as in the UK we have ONT's for FTTP. I also think they're still entry level kit.
https://www.synology.com/en-us/products/compare/routers

In reply to a post by Tacitus:

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Hehehe. The Synology is a NAS box rather than a modem, but in any event well worth slotting in a 10 GbE card if you’re in the habit of shifting large amounts of data in and out of one and the rest of your network is suitably wide.

I know Synology are mainly NAS boxes (I have one), but they also do modems and I assumed (perhaps wrongly) the OP was referring to the possibility of being able to upgrade those to 10GbE.

As noted above, they do a line of WiFi routers, some of the have 2.5 GbE WAN/LAN ports. No modems that I'm aware of and no path to 10GbE on these devices.

Have you come across these M.2 based 10GBaseT adapters from InnoDisk?

https://youtu.be/vt6VrjY2BfY

https://www.innodisk.com/en/products/embedded-periph...

Neat little things!

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Neat little things!

Nice way to get the PCIe lanes when main slots are full.

Doesn’t look as power hungry or hot either. Unfortunately not cheap.

i did see these yesterday - an interesting product

I'm looking to add some secondary network connections to a bunch of Lenovo M80q Gen 3 mini PC's I'm putting into a new Proxmox cluster for iSCSI support.

Unfortunately both the M.2 slots on these little boxes are otherwise occupied for storage duties and these is no PCIe riser slot as there is with the earlier M720q boxes I have 🙁

However I discovered that this series of "M Tiny series 8" machines have 2 of these so called "BTB" ports on the rear which are PCIe4 capable and on these particular boxes they are used for additional ports on the rear fascia; currently sporting an extra DisplayPort and a 9-pin serial port. Both of which aren't required, and which can be swapped out for these....

...compatible 2.5 GbE cards on AliExpress for £40 which will fit the bill nicely.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004893899524.html