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The Synology E10G22-T1-Mini Adapter – What is it?
What IS the E10G22-T1-Mini? It is quite a mouthful of a name, isn’t it? What makes it so special? If there is one area of the network storage market that Synology has always seemed to keep at arms length, it has been 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE). At least up until about 2020, Synology had a tendency to only include this connection on the most business class of desktop solutions and Xeon powered rackmounts. The price of 10G connectivity has come down considerably over the last decade, starting at the thousand of pounds and ending up being available as an upgrade for PCs for as little as £80-100. Still, Synology held off for the most part and it wasn’t until 2020 and the release of the DS1621xs+ 6-Bay with 10GbE and Synology releasing a wide range of 10GbE upgrade options, that we started seeing Synology embrace 10G at the more domestic solution level as a default connection or via an easy upgrade. Which brings us to the E10G22-T1-Mini, a continuation of this adoption and an adapter that allows several devices in the (slowly being revealed) 2022/2023 series of devices to upgrade to 10GbE, but via an alternative way that the traditional and familiar PCIe slot. This new 10G upgrade card arrives in a considerably smaller form, has a lower power/heat generation, takes up considerably less space on the NAS’s own controller board and also seems to be much, MUCH easier to install. On the other hand, this is a proprietary designed upgrade and Synology has been making some increasingly moves in this direction, so this expansion card might not please everyone. So, let’s go through everything we know about the E10G22-T1-Mini and discuss whether this will be a potentially exciting direction for the more popular releases in their PLUS series.
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