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Of all the NUCs they ever made; there is one singular model with 10G ethernet. And yeah good luck getting it.

The lack of any significant IO to the outside world crippled these things massively.

I tried to order 3 NUCs once; after waiting 6 months for stock, I gave up.

Seems nothing will actually be lost.

Anybody make ANYTHING that is nuc-like and has 10G+? HP Elitedesk 800 mini has a flexio option for a single 10g port, but it's the only similar thing I have discovered.

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Looks like there's some stuff on aliexpress like [0]. 2x10G SFP + 4x2.5G + 6 SATA ports for $343 bare seems like a pretty great NAS box on paper, assuming the processor and internal IO can actually handle everything. There's also [1] with 2x10G SFP and 3x2.5G for $276. Personally I'm hoping for something with 10G SFP + 6xSATA + an N305 processor, which I think doesn't exist yet. On paper, the N305 is almost 2x as good as the i5-6600 I have in my desktop, and these things use almost no power, so that'd make for a killer home server/NAS.

[0] https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805527368249.html

[1] https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803996127706.html

I have seen R86S and variants, but as you said it's not quite there either. I understand they are achieving this by putting an OCP 3.0 slot on the bottom of their SBC (though probably with limited PCIe lanes). I'd be happy to see the trend continue.

I thought NBase-T was gonna finally save us all until Marvell bought Aquantia and they started hosing us with speed-limited variants of their chipsets. Now everyone sees a 2.5gb nic and they are stoked for the huge upgrade instead of recognizing that it's really just a crippled 10gb nic

The modern ones have thunderbolt 3 or 4, so you have to get a dongle, but you can get a lot more IO going (including 10G)

Great point. But also I think a company like Intel deliberately segments aka removes useful functionality from cheaper systems, wanting to protect the very profitable, more expensive systems with better ethernet or whatnot.

10G Ethernet is just not a great standard, and a terrible fit for something like a NUC at 5W of waste heat in just that one port. Lots of SFP and 2.5G around, though.

Mac mini? It's a BTO option though. You can also just get a mini PC with Thunderbolt and add a 10gb nic that way.

Seems reasonable considering that the cheapest 10G switches cost about as much as a NUC.

What would be the use case for 10G Ethernet on a NUC computer?

Same as it always is: shared/remote storage.

From my use cases: NDI Video

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