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11 Aug, 2020
Works as advertised, very good performance for the cost
1 of 1 found this helpful I purchased two of these adapters, one for an Unraid NAS and one for my personal computer.
Experience was overall very plug and play, with no major issues during installation.
When using this card on a Windows 10 PC, installing the Intel drivers from the Intel website is required, as Windows does not by default have the necessary drivers.
Unraid on the other hand worked immediately with the card.
Transfer from personal computer to the server reached a peak of 4.2 Gbps while transferring a 27 gigabyte file, with the primary bottleneck being the server cache SSD being only on SATA III (6.0 Gbps). I believe that file system overhead, SMB overhead, and SSD speed are the main bottleneck. The Unraid server cache SSD is a cheap 480GB ADATA SU630, so the file transfer was basically at the maximum sequential write speed for this given SSD.
Overall, I am very satisfied with the performance and price of these cards.