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Retired_Member's avatar
Retired_Member
Jun 26, 2015

ReadyNAS 314 upgrade NIC card to 10Gbe?

I tried searching the forums and didn't find anything regarding this specific model. Can I upgrade the NIC card to 10Gbe? Yes, I know this would void warranty.

I went into the logs and downloaded boot_info.log file and I didn't see anything regarding a 0 or 1 for 10Gbe.


Thanks!

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  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    The boot info.log was using a flag in the EEPROM data to determine which model has 10 GbE. We handle this differently with the newer models.

    I don't think upgrading to using a 10GbE card would be possible.

    The RN716X has two 10GBase-T ports.
  • Retired_Member's avatar
    Retired_Member
    I saw the RN716X. It's just too expensive ;-(
  • mdgm-ntgr's avatar
    mdgm-ntgr
    NETGEAR Employee Retired
    It's too much for me too. At this stage 10GbE on a NAS is very much at a price point where unless you have a business use for it it's not yet affordable.
  • Retired_Member's avatar
    Retired_Member
    I just found out about NIC teaming tonight! I'm going to go this route and install a dual-NIC in my desktop computer. On my ReadyNAS 314, what option should I choose for the bonding? After reading through the differences, I was going to go with either Adaptive Load Balancing or Transmit Load Balancing (but I wasn't sure on the processing power that Netgear warns about.) Thoughts?

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