QNAP via Thunderbolt

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TVS-882T: Thunderbolt networking is broken on Windows 10 Pro 1903

https://forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?t=150261

 

Thunderbolt 3 Ethernet not working after windows 1809

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/63626/thunderbolt-3-ethernet-not-working-after-windows-1.html

 

Thunderbolt Networking is Broken in Later Versions of Windows 10

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/thunderbolt-networking-is-broken-in-later-versions/3eb526ad-703b-4f04-84e3-a0a24529d921

 

I wouldn't even bother with any of that, maybe you could consider stuff like RDMA (SMB Direct) over Infiniband but you're gonna need Mellanox hardware on both ends

 

http://jplay.eu/forum/index.php?/topic/3634-wireless-access-point-vs-router/#entry52902

 

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It's definitely running SMB/CIFS over Thunderbolt 3 so that's gotta be TCP/IP then

 

https://www.qnap.com/solution/thunderbolt3-nas/en-us/

 

Of course your motherboard must have built-in Thunderbolt 3 to boot, or at the very least it's coming with the necessary header

 

 

In the end it's still limited to PCIe x4 so that might / might not be ideal IMHO, depending on what kinda performance we're expecting in the first place.