I want to upgrade my home server with 10GBit speed, and have a dilemma what card to choose.
The options are Chelsio T520-SO-CR (if I can find one of the last revisions) or Intel X550-T1/T2 (I only need one port, but two never hurt if the price is the same or similar).
I'd like to hear about any other viable alternatives. The only hard requirements are:
1) Reasonably low power consumption, because I don't want the server to get too hot, because with 3x HDD and a SAS HBA is already is pretty warm these days.
2) It should be SFP+.
Today I learned about Mellanox cards. Quite a lot of stuff to digest for non-networking type of person.
They seem to be dirt cheap, possibly because some of them are old producs I guess?
Can anyone tell me anything about those? Only the X-2 card seems to support SFP+, but maybe the higher speed standards are backwards compatible? Even the ConnectX-4 Lx cost next to nothing compared to the Intel/Chelsio ones.
The options are Chelsio T520-SO-CR (if I can find one of the last revisions) or Intel X550-T1/T2 (I only need one port, but two never hurt if the price is the same or similar).
I'd like to hear about any other viable alternatives. The only hard requirements are:
1) Reasonably low power consumption, because I don't want the server to get too hot, because with 3x HDD and a SAS HBA is already is pretty warm these days.
2) It should be SFP+.
Today I learned about Mellanox cards. Quite a lot of stuff to digest for non-networking type of person.
They seem to be dirt cheap, possibly because some of them are old producs I guess?
Can anyone tell me anything about those? Only the X-2 card seems to support SFP+, but maybe the higher speed standards are backwards compatible? Even the ConnectX-4 Lx cost next to nothing compared to the Intel/Chelsio ones.