An Easy Plug-n-play way to connect to your QNAP NAS at 5Gb/s with the QNA-UC5G1T Good news for anyone who wants to upgrade their connectivity to the speed on their NAS, but does not have connections like 10Gbe or a PCIe slot at their disposal, with the announcement of a brand new kind of ethernet adapter from the guys at QNAP.  As the designated innovators of NAS and with a well-established history of outside-of-the-box thinking, if any brand was going to challenge the way we access and connect with our data, it was always going to be QNAP. The QNA-UC5G1T is a USB 3.0-to-RJ45 bus-powered device that once connected to a host device via USB-C, then allows you to connect an ethernet device to the other end.

However this is more than a simple ethernet adapter, as it will allow you to access the ethernet connection at upto 5Gb per second (USB 3.0 speeds), that’s 5x faster than your traditional 1Gbe RJ45 LAN connectivity. With their popular Thunderbolt3-to-10Gbe devices (QNA-T310G1T and QNA-T310G1S) proving very popular indeed, it makes sense that they would expand on this hardware logic and the new QNAP QNA-UC5G1T USB-to-5Gbe adapter is the product of that. What is the QNAP QNA-UC5G1T USB to 5/2.5/1Gbe adapter for? On the face of it, many users might not understand the significance of this hardware development. In order to really understand, you have to appreciate that the speed of data is becoming an increasing hurdle for many users. Not just photo and video editors, or those with massive amounts of data to shift on a continuous basis. The increasing issue of data size vs access speed is becoming a problem for home users too. Whether they have large scale backups that require a fast turn around, dense media that exceeds the 1 gigabit threshold in practical access terms is growing sluggish or simply that the software on their computer requires faster access and synchronization to the files on their NAS drive.

QNA-UC5G1T   Interface USB 3.0 to 5G/2.5G/1G/100M RJ-45 port Data Transfer 5Gbps; 2.5Gbps; 1Gbps; 100Mbps Cables USB 3.0 Type-C to Type-A cable or USB Type-C to Type-C cable Power Supply Unit USB powered System Requirements (Windows) Windows 10, 8.1, 8, 7 requires a driver.　Click here to download the driver.
*Required a USB 3.0 port on your computer System Requirements (Mac) Will be supported in the latest macOS
*Required a USB 3.0 port on your computer System Requirements (Linux) Linux core 3.10, 3.12, 3.2, 4.2, 4.4 version. The driver for the Aquantia® AQC11U is required.
*Required a USB 3.0 port on your computer System Requirements (QNAP NAS) QNAP NAS with QTS 4.3.6 (or above) and USB 3.0 port Cable Length 100M CAT 6A: 40° Operating Temperature & Relative Humidity 0 - 40 °C (32°F - 104°F); 5~95% (non-condensing) Dimensions (H x W x D) 99.8 x 28 x 27.85 mm
3.93 x 1.10 x 1.10 inch Weight Net weight: 0.11 Kg, Gross weight: 0.21 Kg LED Indicators Power, LAN Link/Act, transfer speed Package Contents QNA-UC5G1T, 0.2M USB 3.0 Type-C to Type-A cable x 1, installation guide