Rosewill 10GEthernet Network Adapter Card, 10GBASE-T 5-Speed RJ45 PCIe NIC Card $64.99 @ Newegg

[VirtualLarry]

Edit: Now $64.99 @ Newegg

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Edit: $69.99 @ Newegg

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Rosewill 10GEthernet Network Adapter Card, 10GBASE-T 5-Speed RJ45 PCIe NIC Card $74.99 FS

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Features

Chipset: Tehuti Networks TN4010

Supports 10G/5G/2.5G/1G/100M

Runs up to 10G at 100m Cat 6A cable and 5G at 100m Cat 5e/Cat 6 cable

Backward compatibility with 1000Base-T, 100Base-T Networks

PCI Express Gen-2 x4 Host Bus interface

EEE (Energy Efficient Ethernet)

16K Jumbo Frames

IP, TCP, UDP checksum offloading

IEEE 802.1Q Tagged VLAN

Virtual NIC support

Reduced CPU utilization and improved throughput


Edit: Read reviews on Newegg.com first!

Seems like you may need an actual optical drive to read the driver disc, to get this thing working in Windows. One review commented that the 1G link was "flapping".

Price is nice, but ... quality / compatibility may be suspect.

Edit: Also available on ebay from Newegg for $69.99. I had some $25 or so in ebay bucks that was going to expire in a month, so I bought one. Under $50 when it was all said and done. Will update or start a thread in the Networking sub-forum describing how this card works out. I do have a 10GbE-T-capable link upstream to my network "core", though my NAS units are still limited to 2.5GbE, and my internet (FIOS) I downgraded from Gigabit to 200/200 a while ago.

 

[aigomorla]

price is not nice...

IMO... i recommend you guys go hit up EBAY, and get refurbished X540 cards.
Like this guy:

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And they need a dedicated FAN, or they will overheat during a large file transfer, unless you are running a true rack case without modded fans..

That rosewell scares me because of the heatsink in how small they are.
Even ASUS 10G card which has twice the heatsink has overheat issues, as well as reliability issues.

So IMO.... deal is OK... but definitely NOT worth a Refurbished Intel X540 with a dedicated fan

 

[SamirD]

Yeah, there's nothing that can beat the used enterprise 10G stuff. Reliable, cheap, but not exactly for the home sometimes due to sfp+ and cabling. Plus, they're not NBase-T, they're 10G or nothing. Still, if I was going 10Gb, I'd go with what you posted or something like it versus 'new' Nbase-t stuff as it's more expensive.

 

[aigomorla]

Plus, they're not NBase-T, they're 10G or nothing.

the X540 is NBase-T or am i wrong?

 

[Coca-cola Bear]

I believe the heatsink should be fine. The Realtek and Tehuti chipsets are much lower power chips. Actually that is as much the issue holding back higher wired network speeds. But I personally am not impressed by the Tehuti chipsets. The work fine in windows. But installing the linux drivers are a pain. I also do not believe the X540 is a NBase-T card. I think the first series that "supported" NBase-T from intel was the X550. And that also has an asterisk on it, the specs support NBase-T but, I think Intel only supports it on Linux.

 

[mikeford]

Cards, drivers, switches, everybody needs to play nice for it to work. The budget route may be to find the switch first, and get the NIC to match whatever physical it uses. Burns a lot of ports, but I am hoping teaming 1GBe channels will keep me happy until faster stuff gets more practical.

 

[SamirD]

the X540 is NBase-T or am i wrong?

Nope, just the standard 10Gb, 1Gb, 100Mb:

Product Specifications

quick reference guide including specifications, features, pricing, compatibility, design documentation, ordering codes, spec codes and more.

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[SamirD]

Cards, drivers, switches, everybody needs to play nice for it to work. The budget route may be to find the switch first, and get the NIC to match whatever physical it uses. Burns a lot of ports, but I am hoping teaming 1GBe channels will keep me happy until faster stuff gets more practical.

You don't even have to use teaming--apparently smb 3.0 has some features to transfer data over all the connections available. There was a thread on the servethehome forum about this just a while back, but I can't find it.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Save $5, now $64.99. And yeah, Intel X540 is NOT NBase-T compatible, if you care about such things.

 

[mikeford]

This looks like a good start. BTW EMC appears to be the "owner" of SMB, despite the MS origin.

A How To Guide: Setting up SMB3.0 Multichannel on FreeNAS

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