The manufacturer QNAP has launched a new network card with 10G Multigigabit ports, in this case they have presented the QNAP QXG-10G2T-X710 network card, a new model that comes equipped with an Intel Ethernet X710 controller, so we will get the best compatibility with the vast majority of Windows, Linux, and even Unix-based operating systems such as FreeBSD. Do you want to know all the characteristics of this new network card with 2 10G ports?
Main features
This new 10G QXG-10G2T-X710 network card incorporates a total of 2 10G Multigigabit ports , this means that it supports a total of 5 speeds (10G / 5G / 2.5G / 1G / 100M), and will allow us to reach speeds of up to Real 20Gbps thanks to the possibility of Link Aggregation with these two high-speed network ports. This new model incorporates a PCIe Gen 3 x4 interface , but it is also compatible with PCIe Gen 2, although in this case it is recommended that it be at least x4 (4 lanes) to be able to take advantage of the high speeds, otherwise we will not be able to take full advantage of it. because we will have a bottleneck due to the data interface itself.
This new network card with 10G ports, incorporates compatibility with SR-IOV and iSCSI , and also with virtualization applications with intensive use in input and output, and in addition, the latency will also be really low, benefiting from the new built-in Intel X710 chipset. . Thanks to this new network card, we are going to obtain great wired performance using its two 10G ports. SR-IOV technology allows us to assign the bandwidth resources of a physical network card directly to the virtual machines that we configure with Virtualization Station, in addition, it guarantees reliability of the applications that we run in the virtual machines and reduces CPU consumption . The incorporation of iSCSI will allow computers, servers or VMs to use the storage of the QNAP NAS as virtual disks, being able to partition, format and use these virtual disks as if they were local disks, and we can even use them as storage expansion or backup destination. Finally, we must bear in mind that SR-IOV is compatible with certain QNAP NAS models, not all models.
Regarding the compatibility of this new QNAP QXG-10G2T-X710 model, it is compatible with Windows, Linux and Unix operating systems without any problem, all we will have to do is install the corresponding drivers so that they work on the computer where we are going to install. Of course, if you install this QXG-10G2T-X710 network card in a NAS from the manufacturer QNAP and you have version QTS 4.5.2 (or higher) or QuTS Hero 4.5.1 (or higher) you will not need to install any additional drivers, because the operating system itself already includes compatibility with this new Intel chipset, so we will simply have to “click” the card into an available PCIe port on our NAS and it will automatically recognize it.
In the contents of the box of this 10G network card, we have a total of three profiles to adapt perfectly to the different equipment where we are going to install this new network card: low profile support (it comes pre-installed with this), support for full height and also other specific support for certain NAS servers from the manufacturer QNAP, therefore, all the accessories necessary for the start-up of the equipment come.
We recommend you visit the official website of this QNAP QXG-10G2T-X710 network card where you will find all the details of this new model, meanwhile, we recommend you visit our list of the best Multigigabit switches where you will find a ranking of the best.