Now that I've consolidated my NAS and router into one box, I feel like I'm finally ready to pull the trigger on a pair of 10Gb network adapters... teaming network ports worked sort of but won't work all the time for everything and I've experienced some strange issues when streaming video the same time I'm saturating the connection with an iSCSI drive file transfer on my main PC... It seems like it is a Windows problem as it isn't happening in Linux... Although I am not using the driver Windows wants to for my adapter... If you hadn't seen my other post...Microsoft removed the teaming option in Windows 10 Pro...so I had to use a work around with an Intel driver and some creativity.

I've decided on the Intel X550-T2 for the server and the ASUS XG-C100C for the client. The T2 twin port allows me to connect another 10Gb cable to the server and isn't that much more expensive to the T1 single port model... I'm going with RJ-45 because the client is about 20 meters from the server with walls and floors in the way. Sure it is going to be more expensive to go with RJ-45 but I have a CAT 6 run already so I can just use that...in the end it would be a lot easier than trying to figure out how to run a 20 meter optical SFP+ cable through the tight spaces of my house... Plus when I have to move my PC (which will inevitably happen) I won't have to leave a precious SFP+ cable behind. The nice thing is since my NAS and router are on the same box they're communicating on a virtual 10Gb network already so I don't need to buy a 10Gb switch!