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Ughhh...I can't get this to work and I've absolutely no idea where to begin looking. I've installed both cards, one in the windows 10 system and one in the unraid system, and I've connected the direct attach copper cable to both. There's a solid green light on each card and another green light that's blinking slowly on each card. Windows 10 says it is a 10 Gbps connection, unidentified network, Public network and No network access. I manually assigned an ip of 192.168.5.1 to the windows 10 system and 192.168.5.2 to the unraid system, turned off firewall and disabled other network adapters and...ping failed. It just outright failed. I can't use \\192.168.5.2 to connect via SMB either. I'm frustrated and have very little experience with linux so I don't know what I need to be looking for on the linux side. Any ideas?

imo, there can never be too much information on the interwebz. If there's an experience someone can share, or test results that they can share, and if they're willing, it can only help to share it!

Awesome, I might give that a shot then! I already ordered 2 x x520-DA1s and a direct attach copper cable. I'll play around with my options when they come in

Good to hear, thank you! My cache drives are only SATA 6 so I wouldn't hit full 10 Gb speeds regardless. But it's still good to know it'll be updated soon, as at some point I might try to use two PCIe SSDs for my cache.

I was watching the linustechtip's video about running two 10 Gbps network cards directly to achieve faster transfer speeds, but it only covered setting this up between two windows 10 machines. While I am almost positive that this could be done between a windows 10 machine and an unRAID server, I'm not very familiar with Linux and would have absolutely no idea where to start. In fact, I'm wondering if I maybe am starting this thread in the wrong section. I honestly have no idea if there is a more appropriate area to ask this question. It's about networking...but specific to unRAID/Linux...so maybe I should put this in the NAS area? I feel like maybe not though, because this is a more specific NAS issue, a networking issue. The reason I'm typing out my thoughts is that I'm hoping I won't be attacked by people telling me this is in the wrong section, to convey that I actually tried to think it through and pick the most appropriate section...but I digress.... has anyone used the method described in the video between a windows 10 machine and a linux machine or even better and more specifically, between a windows 10 machine and an unRAID system? And if so, what do I need to know to get these two systems talking correctly? Would it be enough to simply follow the steps in this video for the windows 10 machine and just setup the network card on unRAID with a static ip? Or is it more tricky than that? Thanks!