MMAC
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2023
Installed this in a MS Server 2019 System. Integrated flawlessly and is performing with excellence. Low enough cost I bought an extra one for the shelf as a standby.
Vargiu scuola s.r.l.
Reviewed in Italy on June 24, 2023
Il prodotto è buono
Tom Van Dam
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2023
Installing them is very easy and windows will handle the driver all by itself. I did however download the correct driver from Star Tech just to make sure. I recommend them and the price isn't bad either.
Atta
Reviewed in France on November 30, 2023
Que ce soit soit Windows ou Linux (Opnsense), cette carte est reconnue est fonctionne parfaitement.Vu le prix, il est vrai que c'est plutôt orienté monde professionnel.
Pim Zandbergen
Reviewed in the Netherlands on March 8, 2021
Ik zocht een extreem korte PCIe netwerkkaart met Intel chipset. Precies deze kaart dus.Ik had reviews gelezen van andere klanten die meldden dat de PC niet wil opstarten met deze kaart erin.Dat zal wel meevallen, dacht ik. Niet dus; mij overkwam precies hetzelfde.Helaas gaat de kaart dus terug.
Mathias Hollstein
Reviewed in Germany on January 11, 2021
Analog zu vorausgegangenen Bewertungen kann ich sagen, dass die StarTech.com 2-Port PCI Express/PCIe GE Netzwerkkarte (mit Intel i350-chipsatz) in meinen beiden Perimeter-Defense-Systemen (Firewall-/IDS-/IPS-Systeme) keinen korrekten POST (Power On Self-Test) zulässt. Aus diesem Grund kann ich das Produkt, welches die PCI-Spezifikationen augenscheinlich nicht einhält, nicht für den Betrieb empfehlen.
BatteryKing
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2019
An important feature about this card is it is optimized for a cooling fan to be placed above the card, not in front. In other words a deskside computer card, not really a rack mounted server card. (As these have two different directions for air flow.)The temps I am seeing with this card in the winter time with a 120mm Noctua fan blowing over it at around 1,000 RPM with room temps in the 18C to 23C range with the fan controller on a parabolic temperature curve based on room temperature (in order to keep hardware temps as consistent as possible while room temp fluctuates) is from the high 30's C to mid 40's C. (The room seems to be staying this warm primarily due to electronic equipment dissipating heat into the room.) Just before writing this the minimum load for the home system this is in dropped to around 10MB/s after an external device failed, reducing the load, but at times it has gotten up to 170MB/s with the limitation being the managed Ethernet switch using stochastic load balancing for the 802.3ad bonded channels causing the highest use devices to be on one interface while lower bandwidth devices utilized on the other, so this low to high temperature range is based largely on this.As for performance under Linux, I have seen the individual ports get up 98% of theoretical as reported by atop with around 960 Mb/s on that port in one direction using the default 1,500 byte frame size. This is as fast as I have seen anything get up to on my home network, so I would not expect more.I like this card a lot more than the default Intel card and their carbon copy clones as the two port Intel lacks a heat sink and so gets extremely hot, even with a fan blowing at high speed over it. This card however with a fan blowing quitely over it stays well within acceptable temperatures, granted I am using a rather high end fan and a high end fan controller to achieve the best results and that fan is optimized for cooling hotter running add in cards currently in the system than this one. (The temperature curve is both to keep hardware a consistent temperature across a range of room temperatures and should only get into the noisy range of operation when it is hot enough to turn the AC on for human operators to be able to tolerate room temps.)I have not tested out product support as this card just works and was an easy drop in replacement; just change my custom network configuration to use these ports instead of the ones that burnt out, causing me to get this in the first place.In short so far this has been a great card to use for my home deskside Linux workstation / server system.
Luigo
Reviewed in Spain on December 4, 2018
Después de instalar la tarjeta, el equipo no puede hacer el POST. Apita, inicia sucesivos intentos de arranque inconsecuentes. La anomalía provocada por esta placa todavía provoca el Reset de la CMOS. Una situación como esta nunca me ocurrió antes con cualquier otra tarjeta de expansión. Desinstalando la tarjeta todo vuelve a la normalidad. Siendo totalmente inútil fue devuelta.After the card is installed, the computer can not do POST. Beeps, starts successive attempts at inconsequential start. The anomaly caused by this board still causes the CMOS Reset. A situation like this has never happened to me before with any other expansion card. Uninstalling the card everything returns to normal. Being totally useless was returned.
Mr Irwin
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2018
I have a lot of experience working with computer hardware so installation was simple. Find a compatible PCIe slot on your motherboard and plug in the device. The best advice I can give to people buying this network interface card (NIC) is to read the manual and take precautionary steps to prevent and electrostatic damage to the NIC (i.e. install the device in a proper environment and use an anti-static wrist strap). Also, it is important to understand how using this device in a PCIe slot on your motherboard will affect other PCIe-based components (see your motherboard documentation for that information, it will tell you what occurs when each PCIe slot is populated). After plugging in the device I installed the latest drivers from StarTech's website and then plugged in cat 6a cable to each port. The NIC worked immediately. I have been using the NIC for a week with no issues and my speed has been very consistent. I mainly bought this NIC for link aggregation which I will be implementing in the next few days (I'm waiting on the new router). Anyways, if you are someone looking to spend a moderate amount for 802.3ad (IEEE Link Aggregation) and you also want redundant and reliable Ethernet connections then buy this NIC. I'm very happy with it.
R. Sargent
Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2017
While my home network doesn't have LACP support (nor do I truly need it, other than for nerd purposes), I've definitely enjoyed the ease of having four Gigabit connections on one card to spread throughout my server's various functionality and/or VMs. My only complaint is that the card bracket didn't quite fit in the slot on my Storm Stryker case, but I couldn't take a star off since it's unclear whether that has to do with mainboard clearance, a case/cable routing issue, or something with the shape of my card's bracket itself.