Sonnet Solo 10G Thunderbolt 3 to SFP+ 10 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (SFP+ [SR] Included)

Is it hot? Of course it is. The laws of physics cannot be overcome, but they can be engineered around! All those claiming that the NIC gets hot or overheats should be aware of what they are saying. There is a limit to what you can do with The nature of 10Gb NICs is that they get hot. 1 .

2. The size of a small paper, divided by 2. 2. Quietness 3.
Pick two out of the three above based on their affordability. It is impossible to achieve three of the three goals. It is possible to have an affordable device with a whiny, tiny fan that will stay cool even when you put it in a very hot environment. In an effort to keep costs down, it is possible to have a small, affordable device with a complex heat sink design, but it would cost a lot of money. It is also possible to have an affordable device with a giant, cheap heat sink made of large metal material.

Putting that aside, I'm looking forward to receiving them all Because I am an engineer, this was not a difficult task for me. A simple 80mm fan cost me $11 and my fan was attached to the heat sink side of the housing as follows I disassembled the unit and verified that the ribbed side of the housing is thermally connected to the controller. The housing and assembly are actually very well designed from a thermal management perspective. In the factory, they applied thermal interface material to the controller and raised an area in the housing so that it could make contact with the thermal interface material. The second SMD was also fitted with a thermal pad. Because I had it open anyway, I replaced the TIM with a higher quality one and the pad with a fujipoly of the same size instead. That was totally unnecessary, but I figured it couldn't hurt since I had it open in the first place. With the fan on the lowest setting, nowadays the unit doesn't get hot even if it's warm to the touch. If you want an external NIC with a fan for the same price, you can buy another brand, I have made a solution that is both very effective and extremely quiet, even though it is ugly lol.

Hassan Yang

| Apr 09, 2021

Using a sniffer with 10 Gbps speed is no problem for me. In regards to 10GigE issues that are related to SFP+ ports, it is often difficult to diagnose them without having knowledge of Layer1 MitM. In this case, I could buy another Thunderbolt3 port and enable kernel-based booting, and connect to this port from the other Thunderbolt3 port as well You can bridge between these two, and you can run a packet sniffer on them. Drives that support PCIe x4 NVMe at *3 speeds can also be used. With a 1Gbit/s link speed, 9GBytes per second can maintain the same speed. With FiberOptic SFP+ modules, the module stays cool. With RJ45 (copper) SFP+ modules, the module gets extremely hot - currently, this isn't the best option. This could shorten its lifespan as a result of the heat generated by these. I would like for these to have more powerful fans and the fan's RPM to rise in response to temperature rises within the enclosure. There's only one complaint I have with it, and that's the heat generated by the RJ45 10 GigE cable.

Jameson HUMPHRIES

| Jul 08, 2021

The #1 problem with 10 GbE is heat, so after reading many reviews, I opted for this one and was not disappointed. I use a DAC cable to connect my switch to my Mac, and it is 100% silent and barely warm (works out of the box on Mac OS). The performance of this application was as expected (though it will be improved with upgrades to Jumbo packages). It looks like I'll be getting another one soon. The following are the only I'd say it is a bit expensive for a simple PCIe add-in card if you're talking about $200.
*Edit The typo "barely work" has been fixed Please click here LOL. I'm only barely warm. You are looking at the SFP+ version, so it will run cooler than the base-level version Here is the version T. Since this is essential to stating, you should state which.

Aarav Simpson

| Feb 25, 2021

It's great product to build a Nutanix cluster using my laptop and the same SFP+ 10G switch that the nodes are connected to. Rather than use the transceiver provided by Arista, I used a Twinaxia SFP+ cable. It worked perfectly. With this late-gen Lenovo X1 Carbon with Thunderbolt 3 I'm running Windows 10 and a late-gen Lenovo X1 Carbon. I installed the device drivers first and it worked right away.

Solid product, I hope it works just as well when I build the next one.

Jabari Hooper

| Nov 27, 2020

Solo was designed to host SFP+ transceivers, so that is what makes it appealing to consumers. A DAC or an optical connection is preferable to an RJ45 connection as the latter can cause the unit to overheat. I had no problems installing the unit, and it's self-contained and easy to use After being powered off the dock (even from a dock), and after an update of the network settings, the unit was online. In addition, the SR optical module with LC connectors worked right out of the box. In addition, the Thunderbolt cable is rather short and fixed in place. Having barely enough length to loop around the dock, for example, makes it hard to loop around the dock around. There would be no harm in adding a Thunderbolt 3 receptacle, so users could select whatever cables they chose. It is also crucial that you fully seated the thunderbolt 3 plug because a millimeter of difference could cause a transceiver to be disconnected. Despite several hours of very heavy work, something went awry - the unit worked flawlessly for several hours and then crashed - It seems that either the transceiver or the Mac went into a panic, causing the kernel to panic. I haven't had a black screen since then but at the same time, I haven't had a power screen since then. The Caldigit line of I/O devices is one of the most popular items of the TS Docks category.

Warren Benson

| Apr 10, 2021

I wasn't sure how well it would perform, but it's pulling in 850 megabytes per second on my array. Very satisfied with the work. The following correction has been made When Jumbo frames are enabled, MTU 9000 can read and write at 995Mbps. I really like it.

Micah Garcia

| Apr 16, 2021

I edited it A firmware update will be available. A link to the other company's download website is provided in the knowledgebase entry attached to the firmware title. However, the speed at which the firmware reaches the Synology 6 appears to be slower than the standard downloading speed. In contrast to a small (2. x1. 4x1. 8) array, a large 3 disk RAID10 NAS was speedy at 170MB/s peak and 100MB/s average. 7Gb) single file. This should not be caused by my laptop SSD becoming overwhelmed since it works fine when I copy the same file from one local SSD (D). I sent one (C) to the other (A) This (exceeding 2GB/s) was a record. Despite my best efforts, I was let down. I was able to play YouTube without jittery after updating the firmware. As a result, I rate the book as a 3 out of 5. It seems the mouse is slower and the sound is jittery when this product is transferring data. There are also cases when the product turns off on its own while transferring large amounts of data, even if Neither switching the Jumbo packets or Flow control helped me. I followed the Q/A on their website and neither change helped. link to the firmware was from a different company's website, since we didn't list any Sonnet products.

Screenshot of laptop The Lenovo P1 did not have any issues using the Thunderbolt 3 ports with its eGPU and docking The other host is a Synology 1819+ NAS with a In cable form A cable edge with twinax.

Tatum Gray

| Aug 01, 2021