It's been 8 months and I've finished setting up my 10GBE network.
1. Synology DS1618+ with 3 x 7200 8TB HGST enterprise drives & 2 x Seagate 5400 4tb drives (leftover)
2. Synology E10G18-T1 10GBe card
3. Sonnet Tech Solo 10G T3 to 10Gbase-T
Initial setup before the 10GBe was all connected to switch to share resources and internet access. Now I add the 10GBE card to the DS1618+ and connect direct to iMac via SonnetTech Solo.
The gigabit connection to iMac and ds1618 is for internet access and QuickConnect. The SonnectTech and 10GBE card for high speed hook-up.
internet/network IPs are 192.168.1.xx - via DHCP
10GBE network IPs are 169.254.168.x for iMac/sonnet Tech and 169.254.168.x for 10GBe card for ds1618 - manual setting
Took a while to get it to work. I got about 300-400MB/s for writes and 1000MBs for reads.
But sometimes i feel the network is a bit sluggish.
Any help pointers appreciated.
Maybe I get the Mikrotik CRS305-1G-4S+IN 10GBE switch and S+RJ10 adapter.