I want to connect my desktop, another workstation and NAS for faster file transfers for rather cheap (mainly video/photo content - 300-500GB transfers suck on 1GbE right now). I don't want to spend the $ on a switch yet because I'm on a rather tight budget, so it would be all directly connected to one another. All systems have Windows 10 Pro 64-bit installed. The distance between the desktop to the workstation is about 15ft (5m) and from both to the NAS is about 65ft (20m) and I have a bunch of NVMe PCIe SSDs that can take advantage of faster speeds than 10GbE.
After looking around a bit, I was about to pull the trigger on three of these: Dell branded Intel X540-T2 cards or these Supermicro AOC-STG-I2T cards, or possibly save a few bucks and just get the Intel X520-T2 instead...but I'm not really sure what is the best value and least heat/throttling issues.
I started to research other options and multiple threads here and found the Mellanox adapters like this Mellanox ConnectX-3 VPI or this HP 554 QSFP Host Bus Adapter card or maybe this HP[URL='http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?pub=5574933291&toolid=10001&campid=5337060739&customid=&mpt=499277&mpre=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.ebay.com%252Fitm%252FHP-649281-B21-Infiniband-10-40GB-Dual-Port-Adapter-Low-Profile-Bracket%252F392018428744']-649281-B21 card[/URL] that support 40GbE. This would be sick, but, I am a noob when it comes to the cables and connectors and don't yet know much about these cards or other options that may be cheaper/better value.
Does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations on getting 10GbE or even 40GbE at a rather low cost for 2-3 systems with Windows 10 support?
After looking around a bit, I was about to pull the trigger on three of these: Dell branded Intel X540-T2 cards or these Supermicro AOC-STG-I2T cards, or possibly save a few bucks and just get the Intel X520-T2 instead...but I'm not really sure what is the best value and least heat/throttling issues.
I started to research other options and multiple threads here and found the Mellanox adapters like this Mellanox ConnectX-3 VPI or this HP 554 QSFP Host Bus Adapter card or maybe this HP[URL='http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?pub=5574933291&toolid=10001&campid=5337060739&customid=&mpt=499277&mpre=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.ebay.com%252Fitm%252FHP-649281-B21-Infiniband-10-40GB-Dual-Port-Adapter-Low-Profile-Bracket%252F392018428744']-649281-B21 card[/URL] that support 40GbE. This would be sick, but, I am a noob when it comes to the cables and connectors and don't yet know much about these cards or other options that may be cheaper/better value.
Does anyone have any suggestions or recommendations on getting 10GbE or even 40GbE at a rather low cost for 2-3 systems with Windows 10 support?
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