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Devices => PC's and Other Hardware => Topic started by: Manfred on April 20, 2022, 12:49:02 pm
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I have an existing File Server (Win 10 Pro) connected through my Router to MC Server based Computer. All is connected through 1 Gb Ethernet.
Mainboard for MC Server Computer is Asus ROG Strix B550-I Gaming which has a USB 3.2 Gen 2 (Type C) C4 (20 Gbit/s) port).
Can I buy an pcie card with USB 3.2 Gen 2 (Type C) C4 (20 Gbit/s) for my File Server and connect it directly to my MC Server Computer. Does that work?
1. Has anybody experience with this?
2. Which card to buy?
Something like this:
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GC-USB-32-GEN2X2#kf (https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GC-USB-32-GEN2X2#kf)
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No it doesn't really work like that in practice because most hardware manufacturers don't include role-switching drivers or the software to support them even if they have DRD USB ports. Some manufacturers (Apple) do, but one of the devices needs to be booted into a captive "target disk" mode for it to work. Newer Thunderbolt ports sometimes include a networking component so it looks like this is changing in the future, but your AMD hardware doesn't support it.
Since your server motherboard has a 2.5G port your best bet is to add a 2.5G PCIe card to your file server and use a crossover ethernet cable to connect them directly (if you don't have a 2.5G router or other accompanying network components). There are faster solutions (Fiber, multi-NIC 10G, other exotic interconnects) but that would require new hardware at both ends of the run, and 2.5G should be pretty dang fast for media consumption. The next step up would be new 10G cards on both ends.
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Thank you BryanC - That helped a lot. For these kinds of questions the forum is better than Google!