The NIC (Network Interface Card) of your motherboard or computer, the port itself doesn't support Gigabit/10 Gigabit speeds. Switch 1 is the main switch with the gateway for the imaging vlan. We can only image about 5 devices at a time on that switch. Load balancing is set to. In the main server room, I have two cisco SG500X-24 (24 x 1 Gbit ports + 4 sfp+ ports) and SG500XG-8F8T (8 SFP+ ports and 8 x 10 Gbit ports. The SG500XG-8F8T has 10GB fiber transceivers to connect to 4 IDF's (wiring closets) throughout. 10GBASE-T, the standard for 10 Gigabit Ethernet over twisted-pair copper cables (Cat6a and higher), is praised for its cost efficiency and backward compatibility. They are both running the latest firmware and the link speed is listed as 10 Gbps on both devices. The unraid. The nas has a 10GBE Qnap QX10GIT Ethernet expansion card.
