Why is 10 Gb Ethernet still so expensive?

deuse · 14 Jul 2020 at 12:24

james.miller said:
I have steam games on a nas. Obviously not as fast as a local ssd, but for less IO-Critical games it works perfectly.

That's great info

So can anyone tell me if that Arm chip is good enough for 10GB file transfer?

Armageus · 14 Jul 2020 at 12:26

deuse said:
So can anyone tell me if that Arm chip is good enough for 10GB file transfer?

The arm chip will be absolutely fine for file transfer

HEADRAT · 14 Jul 2020 at 12:26

deuse said:
And buying a 1tb ssd ant cheap and my motherboard only has 6 sata ports
I have a PCI 2 sata card installed for my P300 3tb hard drives.

So you have 6TBs of STEAM games?

I think I’d just sell some of the 1TBs and upgrade to 2TBs or buy a HBA controller and just add more SATA3 ports.

deuse · 14 Jul 2020 at 12:36

Armageus said:
The arm chip will be absolutely fine for file transfer

Thank you.

Do you know of a twin 10 GB SFP+ card for my PC?

HEADRAT said:
So you have 6TBs of STEAM games?

I think I’d just sell some of the 1TBs and upgrade to 2TBs or buy a HBA controller and just add more SATA3 ports.

I went from a ATX tower case to a Matx case which was what I wanted.
I have 3-4TB of games as of now.

A nas would be great for me as my carer(lady) hates computers, but can press an on\off button

Armageus · 14 Jul 2020 at 12:56

deuse said:
Do you know of a twin 10 GB SFP+ card for my PC?

HP 560SFP+ is the only one I've personally used (and even then only under Windows Server or FreeBSD), it's an Intel X520 based card.

HEADRAT · 14 Jul 2020 at 13:00

Armageus said:
HP 560SFP+ is the only one I've personally used (and even then only under Windows Server or FreeBSD), it's an Intel X520 based card.

It has a card, it just needs the SFP+s

Armageus · 14 Jul 2020 at 13:01

HEADRAT said:
It has a card, it just needs the SFP+s

Nope - he asked for a card for his PC?

HEADRAT · 14 Jul 2020 at 13:09

Armageus said:
Nope - he asked for a card for his PC?

Ah indeed, my bad I got it confused with the QNAP NAS which only needed SFPs

deuse · 14 Jul 2020 at 13:41

Armageus said:
HP 560SFP+ is the only one I've personally used (and even then only under Windows Server or FreeBSD), it's an Intel X520 based card.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-Ether...776872?hash=item52343db268:g:WmQAAOSwtABe64GA

Is that the one?

HEADRAT · 14 Jul 2020 at 13:46

Looks like just the job

How many do you need, I think I've got one in a cupboard somewhere, are you planning on a switch or are you just connecting point-to-point with a DAC cable?

deuse · 14 Jul 2020 at 13:48

HEADRAT said:
How many do you need, I think I've got one in a cupboard somewhere

A HP 560SFP+ card?

Just 1 dual port card for my pc.

HEADRAT · 14 Jul 2020 at 13:55

OK, let me look and if I do I'll list it on the Members Market (safer than buying off Ebay : I know this is frowned on but hopefully as I'm just trying to be helpful and not advertising outside of the MM the DONs will let it pass, if not I'm more than to remove post )

deuse · 14 Jul 2020 at 14:12

HEADRAT said:
OK, let me look and if I do I'll list it on the Members Market (safer than buying off Ebay : I know this is frowned on but hopefully as I'm just trying to be helpful and not advertising outside of the MM the DONs will let it pass, if not I'm more than to remove post )

No harm as it will help people.

If @Armageus says that ebay link is ok. I will buy it and then buy the rest Nas\Drives.

Armageus · 14 Jul 2020 at 14:16

deuse said:
No harm as it will help people.

If @Armageus says that ebay link is ok. I will buy it and then buy the rest Nas\Drives.

It's the same cards I've used, but as mentioned above I've never tried them under Windows 10

Also no issue with @HEADRAT having mentioned it here, as long as all discussion/sale is done via the MM.

ChrisD. · 14 Jul 2020 at 14:23

I use the X520 in my PC using Windows 10, although it's a single port. Most will work out of the box anyway, I wouldn't worry.

deuse · 14 Jul 2020 at 14:36

ChrisD. said:
I use the X520 in my PC using Windows 10, although it's a single port. Most will work out of the box anyway, I wouldn't worry.

Thanks
Just bought everything I need....

Now the wait

Scrap that. What ruddy sfp+ cable do I need?

Been on site and it's very confusing.

Armageus · 14 Jul 2020 at 14:47

487657-001 or something similar (that is a 3 Meter HP branded one)

HEADRAT · 14 Jul 2020 at 14:50

ChrisD. said:
I use the X520 in my PC using Windows 10, although it's a single port. Most will work out of the box anyway, I wouldn't worry.

Yep, confirmed using in Win10 here.

deuse · 14 Jul 2020 at 14:50

Armageus said:
487657-001 or something similar (that is a 3 Meter HP branded one)

This looks like it?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-10GbE...897677&hash=item3fb27a4c28:g:-SAAAOSwsO5b-VtN

deuse · 14 Jul 2020 at 14:51

HEADRAT said:
Yep, confirmed using in Win10 here.

Great info

HEADRAT · 14 Jul 2020 at 14:54

deuse said:
Great info

Intel drivers for NIC can be found here:

https://www.intel.co.uk/content/www.../500-series-network-adapters-up-to-10gbe.html