My second XG-C100C finally arrived this morning, much to the annoyance of my oldest daughter, the postwomen delivered it at 07:15 and the rest of us slept through the door bell ringing
Lucky she heard it really and the postwomen waited a little while. The other one was also delivered at 07:15 the other day, but I was literally about to leave for work, don't think I've ever had post so early.
I've just run some very basic tests - see attached screenshot.
PC 1 has a 512GB Samsung 950 Pro NVME, PC 2 has a 1TB Sabrent Rocket Gen 4 NVME.
I copied 9.5GB of data using Teracopy, with the main file being 9.48GB in size.
At 1Gbps connection via my switch it averaged 112MB/s and took 1 minute 27 seconds.
At 10Gbps with the two PC's connected by a Cat5e patch cable it averaged 396MB/s and took 24 seconds.
At 10Gbps with the two PC's connected via my patch panel it averaged 314MB/s and took 30 seconds.
I was expecting far faster transfers via 10Gbps, the drives are up to it, and the connection was at 10Gbps, could it be errors?
The current patch cables are basic Cat5e cables, I do have some decent Cat6a cables coming. The third test was running through 25 meters of Cat5e a short patch cable at the patch panel, and two cat5e cables to each PC, one being the flat variety. Once fully setup PC 1 will be running over 12 meters of Cat5e, PC 2 over 13 meters approximately using Cat6a patch cables.
Once I get my switch, new cat6a cables and the other card I can try some tests from the server.
I've also discovered that
Asus do a SFP+ card XG-C100F