Takes bloody forever! First time upgrading storage on this thing haha.
Nice. I have the same model, I bought a used half height sfp+ Intel x52 from ebay*
It’s worked like a charm
Oh those are pretty cheap, nice find.
Oooh nice- I have one of these too, but haven’t put in faster Ethernet yet. I’m gonna wait until all my network equipment gets a bump first.
The card you put in- is it the one that’s paired with the ssd cache card or something else?
SSD cache wouldn’t be useful I think. I’m under the impression at least I wouldn’t see any faster transfer speeds, since the cache is really only effective for accessing the same small amount of data repeatedly like a web server. I’m rarely if ever doing that. So I saved some money and went to github:
https://github.com/bb-qq/r8152
I’m using a UGREEN USB adapter to get 2.5. Almost zero issues, except I have make sure to update the driver before DSM updates. I’ve had instability the one time I updated DSM first.
I’m on the same page with you about cache. Thanks for the tip though, I’m gonna look into this!!
The 2.5GbE upgrade is totally worth doing even before upgrading other equipment - I get full speed when connected directly to my PC, and it makes a huge diffrence for backups.
Thanks for the tip!!!
