I bought this and it didn't work in my particular Synology NAS model, so I thought hmm, let's try this in my Asus z490 Windows 10 PC. And I got very lucky.
Here's a hint: with 2 cards, and 4 NVMe, I get 10,000MB/s
See the attached AS-SSD and CrystalDiskMark NVMe performance image.
Without a driver, the 2 NVMe drive show up fine in Windows 10, but to get the Acquantia NIC chip to function you must use the following driver:
Driver: Marvell Acquantia AQC107 driver (v2.1.21.0 in my case)
Download: Go to Marvell, Support, Ethernet, Driver Download section and download the Win10 driver for part# AQC107
Note: Marvell purchased Acquantia recently
The card has a PCIE 8-lane interface. The 10gbe NIC would use up 1 to 1.2 of those lanes, leaving 7 lanes or so for the 2 NVMe drives. I am not sure if they are using a PCIE switch to balance that out - which would be the most ideal way to do it. Either way, this is magic. With 2 of these E10M20-T1 cards, I finally have 2 10gbe NICs and 4 Samsung 970 Evo Plus NVMe sticks feeding the CPU via 16 PCIE Gen3.0 lanes (My Samsung 980 Pro NVMe runs off slow PCH lanes for my boot drive).
Oh...I bet tis works fine in a supported Synology NAS as well. But do not think that it will work if it is not explicitly supported by your NAS model. Synology explicitly stops (perfect compatible) cards from add too much really cool functionality to their NAS units. And at least as of now Synology does not allow NVMe drives for storage, only for cache for SATA HDD and/or SATA SSD.
The card is a work of art. I rarely see this level of quality even at the enterprise level.
I am sure this works well in the compatible Synology NAS units - read the compatibility list and don't think it is just a suggestion.
I can't say if this will work for you in a Windows 10 setup (know the risk) but I can tell you that it worked for me. The toughest part was figuring out what vendor Synology used for the NIC chip as the NVMe just worked. Once I found that is was Acquantia I had to figure out that Marvell recent purchased them. The driver was sitting there say, download me and go for it - and I did.
My NAS setup
DS1621xs+ (does not support this E10M20-T1 NIC/NVMe card)
OS/DSM 6.2.3-25426 Update 3
My Windows 10 x64 setup
Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix-E (bought summer of 2020, cheap but effective motherboard, USB 3.1 Gen2x2, but no Thunderbolt)
CPU: 10th Gen i9-10900K (stock speed but will do 5.3Ghz, bought summer of 2020)
RAM: G.SKILL TridentZ Series 64GB (4 x 16GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3400 (PC4 27200) Model F4-3400C16Q-64GTZ (running stock at 2133mhz, quite a few years old)
PCIE slot usage: Each of the 2 E10M20-T1 [PCIEx8] cards runs in the 2 CPU-wired PCIEx16[physical slots] - so a x8/x8 slot setup (I am a developer, not a gamer)
Good luck
Brand | Synology 群晖 |
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制造商 | Synology |
商品尺寸 | 20.04 x 7.16 x 1.78 cm; 204 克 |
商品重量 | 204 g |