QNAP QNA-T310G1T review. Thunderbolt to 10 Gigabit Ethernet adapter.

The QNAP QNA-T310G1T has good build quality, is good looking and is plug and play for Mac but theres are unexpected problems. It makes too much noise and draws a fair bit of power when on battery. These points will be the decider as to whether you should buy it or not.

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[frank-christiankruegel]

I've got the SFP+ version, and it has no fan and is absolutely silent.

[wedgtton]

10Gbe T base allways generates lots of heat. That is why it is much better to use SPF+ where possible including switches

[RonGabriel]

a demo showing transfer speed on your 10gbe adapter would have been amazing to watch, given that is the core functionality of the device

[michaeldale]

Thanks for the review. It seems this device is loud, expensive, power hungry and has a limited use case. Interesting though.

[codeman-dev]

What exactly is this for? Genuine question.

Seems like a 2.5 Gbit port would be overkill for a lot of applications. Those can be found on docking solutions that *provide* power instead of consume it.

[Blasterxp]

In 5 years it will be embedded into your laptop with a 2 cent chip... Early adaptors

[uiopuiop]

who cares that it has sound. sfp is better tho

[nathanward]

These qnap 10g interfaces can connect at 10g but can rarely actually deliver 10g throughput. The review doesn’t actually test performance, so is pretty worthless.

The sonnet 10g interfaces deliver reliable 10g, so I would recommend them over the qnap.

Hopefully you have an affiliate link for the sonnet products, so folks can but something actually worthwhile, while giving you $ for spending time making this video. L