I recently had to spec & build some servers for a couple of ProxMox & Ceph clusters, built in a short-depth InWin 1U case and the Minisforum BD795M board.
Since the case & MB combo only allowed one slot/board, and Ceph performance was predictably dismal using the single 2.5GbE on the MB, I spent some time evaluating options for the one PCIe slot.
Almost any 2x10GbE NICs could be have been fine, but I wanted some additional storage as well as 2x10GbE. I tried the $299 McFiver (1x10GbE, 2xM.2, 2x10Gbps USB 3.2) but it was spendy and I really wanted a 2nd 10GbE.
Anyway, eventually I found this card on AE: https://a.aliexpress.com/_EzljYYB. Around $130 for 2x10GbE, 2xM.2, no bifurcation required.
It seemed a bit sus that it was just PICe3.0x4, AIUI that’s not enough PCIe bandwidth to run all 4 devices at full speed simultaneously. But I tested it out and was pretty happy with the results.
Both NICs managed to simultaneously each push ~9.5+ Gbps via iPerf, and even though that only leaves about 1.5Gbps for the M.2s on the AIC, Ceph with a 10GbE link and 3 nodes/3 OSDs on the motherboard M.2s was bottlenecking around 1Gbps anyway.
So IMO, for this scenario the AE card seems pretty unique - affordable hybrid dual 10 GbE NIC and dual M.2 storage, low profile 1-slot card. Anyway, hopefully this is useful for other folk digging through the back catalog of AIBs for your own home lab builds.