praecorloth
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Hey guys. A couple of friends and I are getting ready to test the ever loving shit out of FreeNAS to see if we can tie down some specific dos and don'ts for Samba. One of the things that usually come up in slow Samba transfer threads is "are you using a decent NIC?"
Frankly, I'm skeptical on this one. I understand that many NICs are like the Win Modems of old. But modern processors should be more than powerful enough to handle gigabit traffic, I think. But who knows. I've been wrong before.
What I want to know is what is a good NIC? I'd like to nab two PCI NICs and two PCI express NICs for testing, and since I'm doing this for shits and giggles, I need them to be as inexpensive as possible. Obviously we're trying to break away from the $15 Realteks. But if I could avoid spending $100 per NIC, that would be awesome.
Frankly, I'm skeptical on this one. I understand that many NICs are like the Win Modems of old. But modern processors should be more than powerful enough to handle gigabit traffic, I think. But who knows. I've been wrong before.
What I want to know is what is a good NIC? I'd like to nab two PCI NICs and two PCI express NICs for testing, and since I'm doing this for shits and giggles, I need them to be as inexpensive as possible. Obviously we're trying to break away from the $15 Realteks. But if I could avoid spending $100 per NIC, that would be awesome.