[ale] Ot: cheap 10G lan cards

Fri Jul 4 11:38:33 EDT 2025

[ Happy 4th everyone! ]

On a slightly more expensive topic, I was thinking of building a new NAS but using 10G ethernet.  I’ve been messing around with Proxmox lately and I’d like for the servers and iSCSI storage to all be 10G.  It’ll just be for my home-lab, nothing production. 

I have also seen that Thunderbolt 4 and 5 support some crazy data transfer speeds, it would be interesting to try a Thunderbolt to 10G ethernet adapter.

/Raj

From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> on behalf of Bob Toxen via Ale <ale at ale.org>
Reply-To: Bob Toxen <transam at verysecurelinux.com>, Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Date: Thursday, July 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
Cc: Bob Toxen <transam at verysecurelinux.com>
Subject: Re: [ale] Ot: cheap lan cards

Do these work with Linux?

Why so against Realtek?

I've been using them (10 & 100 Mbit) for 20-30 years with Linux with

with zero problems.

Bob

On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 11:41:50AM -0400, Calvin Harrigan via Ale wrote:

On 7/3/2025 11:28 AM, DJPfulio--- via Ale wrote:

> On 7/2/25 17:31, Boris Borisov via Ale wrote:

> > Microcenter Duluth perhaps Marietta as well have 99 cents gigabit

> > network cards.

> 

> Brand and chips used??? It matters.?? I won't touch realtek NICs.

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Seems the cards are:

HiRO H50218 10/100/1000 Internal PCI Express with Realtek Chipsets.

https://www.microcenter.com/product/680735/hiro-h50218-10-100-1000-internal-pci-express

A slightly deeper dig indicates the chipset might specifically be Realtek

RTL8111E.

I'd use these for playing around, not for anything of even the slightest

importance.

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Calvin Harrigan

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