Intel PRO/1000 Pt Dual Port Server Adapter

Full disclosure, the first card I was sent was DOA. I contacted Amazon who forwarded me to the vendor, and they were very happy to assist and sent me out a new card, did not even ask for a return of the dead one. This is how you win customers and get good reviews if there are issues.So the card itself is nice and sturdy looking, not some wafer think junk. Nice large heatsink on the processor which makes me think that it will have a nice long life. Install as always is simple, standard card here nothing special to talk about.Ok so performance. I have this in a Ubuntu 17.04 server which is a plex media transcoder slave, so I set these up bonded using BalanceXOR as my ghetto switch does not support 802.3ad so balancexor it is. Setup went great and I show them load balanced both running full 1gig links. Response times as well as over throughput over my single 1gig link has easily doubled (or more) throughput and lowered response times a solid 1ms. I honestly did not think for something like video xcoding that I would see this dramatic a performance increase, but yeah there it is.As a side note, Ubuntu 17.04 did recognize these right away and no additional drivers were needed to be loaded or anything special. Just add and put them in interfaces.

worked as expected under Linux for a router

This card is awesome. I installed it into my pfSense router and it was recognized right away without installing any special drivers. The performance is rock solid and I couldn't ask for a better card. The seller I purchased from was AMTECH. They were great and very fast shipping this card to my door. This card ships with the standard height bracket and I needed the low profile version for my rack mount case. I contacted AMTECH and asked about the low profile bracket and they replied back later in the day and told me they'd send me the low profile bracket at not extra cost. That was really cool of them and saved me the trouble of having to research and find just the low profile bracket elsewhere. At 42 dollars this card is a steal. I see it retailing on other sites for a lot more. I'll be buying more of these cards to install in my other machines and run nic teaming later.Great card! Great Price! and Great service from AMTECH.

I have a specific need - my system has a single gigabit port and an SSD drive. I do audio recording, and, as the nature of audio recording (lots of writes) and SSD's main weakness being that it can't handle TONS of writes before they eventually burn out, and, sometimes they have catastrophic losses....well, I have a Synology DiskStation, and, it does iSCSI.Well, if you try and pull off standard networking and iSCSI the result is that something has to give. I was having issues with either the files sharing from the diskstation dropping, or the iSCSI drive dropping. I was able to work around it by using the Realtek diagnostic software, which allows one to create virtual network cards, and assigning vlans to the virtual cards/switch, but that's just...fake.This does is just what the doctor ordered. Two gigabit ports. One for standard network, one for iSCSI, and it seems to perform even better than the Realtek NIC. So, at least with this system, I've disabled the realtek NIC.I have an identical system that I use as a home-server, and, when I need to, I shift both of those systems into a 2node cluster. Previously, I did it with the realtek diagnostic driver creating a heartbeat, live migration, iscsi, and data networks all to create a hyper-v cluster - it'll be interesting when I need to do this again to see how it goes as I could omit the live-migration network...Anyway...works great.

The Best Part? The Worst Part is more appropriate. I bought this card for a pfsense firewall pc and it has been nothing but problems. One port is firmware locked to 100Mbps as evidenced by the green rather than orange link light. I pulled it out of my BSD router several times to install it in a Windows PC to run Intel’s firmware utility (after installing new drivers). Despite the card showing good in Device Manager, firmware util would not communicate, throwing errors. Card is going back to be replaced by an ACTUAL new unit from a different vendor. This unit is clearly used (the pre opened cardboard box was the first indication), despite being sold AS NEW.

Okay, this is more a warning to people who see the low price of $40 something and think you're getting a deal. You're not. There are a bunch of sellers who are selling the BULK (EXPI9402PT-BLK) version of this card as the retail version. Not only that, but they're sourcing the (no doubt counterfeit) cards from AliExpress where they're selling for less than that shipped.If you don't mind/care then the fake card may be a good fit for you. Just realize you don't REALLY know what chips are being used or hidden software is lurking on the cheap/fake card.