I just wish they had 2x5GbE like the Orion O6. i/o heavily matters for my compute nodes.

I wonder if 802.3ad bonding can bring 5gbit/s

adrian_b 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It says that it has four 10 Gb/s USB ports (2 Type A and 2 Type C).

It is unknown whether the ports are independent, or some of them or all of them are connected to an internal hub.

Even if they were connected to a single CPU port through an internal hub, if you used two 5 Gb/s USB Ethernet interfaces you would get close to full speed for them.

Having 10 Gb/s USB instead of the so-called "5 Gb/s" USB (in reality 4 Gb/s), provides much more additional I/O throughput than having 5 Gb/s RJ45 instead of 2.5 Gb/s. I agree that having 5 Gb/s Ethernet would have been nice, but it is much more valuable that it has 10 Gb/s USB, which is very rarely encountered on Arm-based computers.

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HeyMeco 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They’re independent

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preisschild an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I wonder how well a usb 10gbit ethernet adapter would work then

But I really apprecate your reply!

I'll definitely buy one for testing when they become available for reasonable prices <500EUR for 16gig memory

	▲	volemo 20 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Hmm, is it possible to skip the Ethernet adapters in a configuration of USBC-Eth-Eth-USBC and connect USBCs directly one to another?

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modeless 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Seems like you could add that pretty easily via USB and/or M.2. Either should have the necessary bandwidth.

	▲	preisschild an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I would use the m.2 e keys for sata and x4 m key for nvme ssds. That only leaves pcie gen3 x2. I want to run a distributed network storage (ceph)