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Curious as to which 10Gb Ethernet controller is being used, no mention in the teardown. Anyone know?
by termie 8y ago
Curious as to which 10Gb Ethernet controller is being used, no mention in the teardown. Anyone know?
- jamesfmilne 8y agoAquantia, same as the iMac Pro.
- robin_reala 8y agoIs there anyone else manufacturing 10G controllers at $100 end-user prices?
- jamesfmilne 8y agoYes, Tehuti Networks[1], which is used by some Thunderbolt 3 Ethernet adapters, like the Akitio Thunder3 10G [2]. (OK, not quite <$100, but <$200) [1] http://www.tehutinetworks.net/?t=LV&L1=3&L2=0&L3=0&L7=156 http://www.tehutinetworks.net/?t=LV&L1=3&L2=0&L3=0&L7=156 [2] https://www.akitio.com/adapters/thunder3-10g-network-adapter https://www.akitio.com/adapters/thunder3-10g-network-adapter
- walrus01 8y agoNot for Mac Minis, but you can get two port, Intel X520 series 10GbE (optical) PCI-Express cards for $85 to $110 each on ebay these days. 1310nm/LX SFP+ are really cheap, like $25 a piece. I am biased, working in network engineering, but I really don't see a huge use case for 10GBaseT. It's almost unheard of in an ISP environment. Anywhere we need more than 1000BaseT we do everything optically.
- PascLeRasc 8y agoWhat about connecting to storage, either an SSD NAS or a local disk array? At work we have regular old HDDs in RAID 1 and it saturates a 1 gig connection, so I'd imagine SSDs in some faster RAID would get way above that, and you don't have to redo wiring everywhere if you already have Cat6 installed.