Does ROCK on NUC Work With Sonnet Solo 10G?

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#1

Does ROCK running on a NUC with Thunderbolt 3 work with the Sonnet Solo 10G Thunderbolt to SFP+ adapter?

I guess it may come down to which version of the Linux kernel Rock is currently using.

According to Sonnet kernel 5+ is needed.

This guy has the adapter working on a NUC with Linux, so I think it may work with ROCK.

#2

ROCK doesn’t support the Thunderbolt port at all… You’ll need to use a proper distro.

Also, for Roon usage, 10GB Ethernet is totally unnecessary… Max bitrate for a single zone is around 50Mbit/s, and thats with upsampling to 768k. That will stress the CPU hard enough that you’ll run out of CPU for multiple zones long before you exceed a 1GB link…

#3

I copy huge amounts of data around my network for testing all the time. I don’t like to wait when I don’t have to. If I can get a 10x boost in speed for this, I do it.

Last year @danny mentioned going to the 5.x kernel soon. I’m wondering if this happened because if it did, support for this should be baked in.

#4

May come with the 2.0 release.

#5

It’s been 5.x for a long time now.

#6