Review on High Performance Intel PRO/1000 Pt Dual Port Server Adapter – Connect & Boost Your Server Efficiency by Jason Hymon

I have a special need - my system has a gigabit port and an SSD drive. I record audio and because the nature of audio recording is (lots of recordings) and the main weakness of an SSD is that it can't handle TONS of recordings before eventually burning out and sometimes having catastrophic losses. Well I have a Synology DiskStation and it supports iSCSI. Well, when you try to implement standard networking and iSCSI, the result is bound to give way. I had problems deleting the file share from a Diskstation or deleting an iSCSI drive. I was able to get around this using Realtek's diagnostic software, which allows you to create virtual NICs and assign VLANs to virtual cards/switches, but it's just fake. That's exactly what the doctor ordered. Two gigabit ports. One for standard networking and one for iSCSI and it seems to work even better than the Realtek NIC. So at least on this system I disabled the Realtek NIC. I have an identical system that I use as a home server and when necessary I move both systems into a two node cluster. I used to do this with the Realtek diagnostic driver which creates a heartbeat, live migration, iscsi and data networks to create a Hyper-V cluster. One could omit the live migration network. In any case. works perfectly.