For that reason I did not invest the time. Quick summary, no on the Asus card because it would not work with my CAT7 cabling, despite which device I used. I'm using the Aquantia card in the PC for now, also great. For now I've popped the X550-T2 into the NAS and it's working great out of the box. I had some other things pop up that'll keep me busy for a bit. I will only run 1 of the ports, so I prefer the newer silicon, as it'll get re-purposed going forward.Įven running both ports, I don't think I could saturate the available bandwidth with my NAS usage.Ī little follow-up. The Synology is a PCIE2.0 device, so in that regard the 8 lane card is better. Wish I had grabbed the Netgear during Prime day, as it happened to be ~$580 that day.Įdit: Just to make sure the fine details are covered, this is a 4 lane PCIE3 card, so if you want to run both ports on the Synology, you'll be constrained to 70-75% of max throughput. When I get around to picking up a proper switch, I'll be glad to have the 2 10G ports on the NAS anyways. Hopefully I'll get some time to look into using the ASUS card in the NAS with the Linux drivers, but it won't be immediately. I guess I need to peek around and look into tuning, but for now it's all in place.

Intel x550 t2 driver