Adding 10GbE via M.2 to CWWK N6005 i226 v4?

[Sumsar]

I am basically looking at doing the same thing this Innodisk egpl-t101 does, but since you can't actually buy that anywhere for a reasonable price, has anybody tried adding 10G to one of these CWWK N6005 Mini PC's through an M.2 to PCIe x4 adapter like https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B089Y7VQMD or https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074Z5YKXJ ?

Looking at the photo of the motherboard it would be extremely tight fitting a card in there, but I figure with some creativity it might be possible to 3d print some sort of case extension and jam the smallest card in there I can find. Like https://amazon.com/gp/product/B01N5AOWW6

A nicer solution would probably to use an M.2 oculink adapter and https://www.amazon.com/HP-10GBASE-T-Dual-NIC-Module/dp/B07BR96SSJ but again, too expensive. A cheap Oculink to SFP+ adapter would be really cool, but I can't find that.

 

[newabc]

If you haven't bought the CWWK's 4-port N6005, you can take a look at "r86s"(search "r86s" on aliexpress.com), gw-r86s-g2 or gw-r86s-g3, it has 3 2.5g ports and dual sfp+ ports, but costs from $360 to $440.

 

[glow]

If you haven't bought the CWWK's 4-port N6005, you can take a look at "r86s"(search "r86s" on aliexpress.com), gw-r86s-g2 or gw-r86s-g3, it has 3 2.5g ports and dual sfp+ ports, but costs from $360 to $440.

I'm not OP, but the three 2.5GbE RJ45 & 2 SFP+ is exactly what I was looking for, but could not find. It has a fan and is not passive. [looks to be one i211 and two i225]

Seems to be an OCP2.0 ConnectX3 of some sort. OCP2 is good, I didn't think of looking for small PCs with OCP.

Pricing on aliexpress is a bit odd. Seems like it doesn't actually come with the OCP2 card?

 

[Sumsar]

Yes, I agree, this looks like a really good option and much better than trying to jam an SFP+ card into the CWWK box.

 

[newabc]

I'm not OP, but the three 2.5GbE RJ45 & 2 SFP+ is exactly what I was looking for, but could not find. It has a fan and is not passive. [looks to be one i211 and two i225]

Seems to be an OCP2.0 ConnectX3 of some sort. OCP2 is good, I didn't think of looking for small PCs with OCP.

Pricing on aliexpress is a bit odd. Seems like it doesn't actually come with the OCP2 card?

Below are 2-3 unboxing videos:

But they are probably selling these in China on their taobao.com stores, so some words what they said in their videos are ads.
The OCP connectX3 are probably used ones, not new. But taobao.com stores have the traditions to sell tested 2nd-hand enterprise goods which mean they are more reliable than consumer grade products to the Chinese consumers.

 

[Occamsrazor]

R86s router thread here... https://forums.servethehome.com/index.php?threads/r86s-router.37299/
To me it is very interesting.