StarTech PCI Express Gigabit Network Adapter Review

StarTech.com 1-Port PCI-Express Gigabit Network Server Adapter w/ REV E Network Card with 6 Intel Chips - Dual Profile (ST1000SPEX2) Win 10 Installation and Instant Plug and Play, Drivers Download Win 10 found on the StarTech website and it worked too. It was shown to get 1GB and the upload and download speed test was impressive. The speed was only measured with the Win 10 driver downloaded from their website. The driver disk that came with it did not contain a driver for Win 10. The network…

Fast, stable, inexpensive. Latency is not as good as the Intel X540-T2, but very close. The transmission speed is the same or slightly better than Intel. Unless negligible response time is more important than transfer speed in your environment, I would choose this card over the more expensive Intel, however Intel has 2 ports. Both Intel and Startech were vastly superior to the QNap cards in every way.

I bought an Intel 10GbE X540-T2 network card on eBay on July 15th. He started walking towards me. It was shutting down at random times and the only way to fix it is to restart your computer. I didn't realize the item I bought was probably a gray market item as it was a few hundred dollars cheaper and didn't have a "Yottamark" sticker. So I went ahead and bought this StarTech 10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC. (ST10000SPEX) to replace my Intel X540-T2. This time I bought it directly from Revain so I know…