Today we have one of the more unique PCIe expansion cards that we have seen recently, the QNAP QM2-2P10G1TA. Typically these expansion cards are used in QNAP NAS units that have PCIe expansion slots. The goal is to provide both 10Gbase-T networking support along with dual NVMe SSD support. There is a M.2 SATA version of this card as well. We wanted to see how these units work outside of their standard NAS confines and hold them to a more rigorous standard: performance in a desktop workstation. We have fielded several questions recently about whether this card works in non-QNAP systems, so we decided to try it. The short answer is that it does, but there are a lot of caveats our readers should be aware of before charging into this solution.
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