E-X540-T1

5 stars for the Euqvos version at this price. I was worried it could be a scam and I’d need to return it, but this took the official drivers and firmware from Intel and works how an E610 should. Regarding the platform itself - note that it didn’t work for me until I updated the firmware. This seems to be a common problem with E610s.

100% compatible with the Intel part AFAICT. I used this component to build a firewall/router with a PC and OpenWrt. It is forwarding packets at layer 2 at line rate. Make sure you are getting the full gen 3 x 8 bandwidth from the slot you use. My unit has a fan on the heatsink, but it is quiet.

Works as advertised. I can get full 10Gbps with this card. The main reason I got it was because it has the Intel Chipset. Some cheaper non-Intel cards would not work with a version of FreeBSD that I was trying to run.

There are many many ways to dip your toe in to 10gbe networking in your home lab for the fun of doing it. Going with a card like this is one of them. I won't go into the rest of the details but with the cheap switches out there and then running cat6a or 7 cabling, its a cost effective way unless you just want to be fancy and use fiber. either way i'm speaking from a homelab perspective. this device does identify itself as an Intel chip set. There no windows 11 drivers stock so MAKE SURE YOU KEEP YOUR CURRENT NIC ACTIVE to download the latest driver for this card. It runs cool and runs as expected. I will never reach full 10gbs speeds with my setup but i can fully saturate my solid state drives and my Raid 10 NAS with minimal effort. Which was my end goal. Literally the I/O on my storage devices are my bottleneck now. and that makes me happy.

UPDATE: Died after exactly one year. Literally 368 days after I purchased and installed this card, it has fully died requiring a replacement. I am going with a different brand this time that somehow fits a lot of this in to a much smaller form factor. Original review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I have a NAS build running unRAID. The one PCI slot on my ITX board is being used for a hefty SATA card that operates all my HDDs and the motherboard only has 2.5G ethernet. I had a spare M.2 slot available so I added this card to get 10G networking on this system. It was super easy to install. No documentation necessary. Plug in to the M.2 slot, add the bracket to your expansion slot opening, plug in SATA power, connect the 2 parts with the included cable and power on Immediately worked with literally zero driver issues. Detected and getting full speeds. Seems less expensive than some other versions of the same type of adapter. Glad to have the Intel chipset as it has a much better reputation than the aQtion or whatever chips.

A lower PCIE slot was blocked off so I went with using the M2 slot for 10gb. It does the job, but finding the drivers for it turned out to be a bit of a hassle. Windows10 did not recognize it right off the bat.

For clarity's sake, this is specifically for the single port SFP+ 10G NIC. I'm using this in a TrueNAS Scale server and this card works without fuss. TrueNAS picked it up immediately, no fussing with special drivers or anything. I'm using it with an off-brand DAC cable to a no-name 2.5G/10G combo switch and everything is coexisting peacefully. The build quality is good, and it comes with both the full-height and half-height brackets, which is nice. No manual or anything, but lets be honest, if you're getting a 10G SFP+ NIC, you probably don't need a manual anyway. The lspci command on Linux does confirm this as a proper Intel NIC as well, it's not a Realtek card in disguise or anything, and in case you're worried about it phoning home to some server somewhere, the Pi-Hole on my network confirms that it doesn't. For the price, it's well worth it.

At first this seemed like an odd solution to add 10G networking to my NAS, until I learned that M.2 is effectively just a different form factor of PCIe. This NIC is a life saver for a small form factor NAS or a PC where all the PCIe slots are taken up. I installed it in my TrueNAS and it was detected and started working with no additional config needed, and is so far running stable at 10G speeds. The braided cable between the M.2 card and the NIC card is a nice touch.

It works well, but sometimes "freezes."

Carte réseaux fonctionnant très bien en mode 10 Gbps pour ma freebox Delta.

Instalado à dois meses. Aquece um bocado. Deveria no meu entender ter refrigeração ativa. Até agora tudo funciona no Windows. Dóis drivers de rede detectados o que no meu caso para máquinas virtuais foi muito útil. Consegui colocar uma porta de entrada de dados e outra de saída.

Die Karte ist kaputt, fake und es ist leider jetzt erst aufgefallen, Rücksendung nach 3 Monaten nicht mehr möglich. Hoffe das der Händler mich kontakiert und ich eine neue bekomme

Niquel la carte tourne très bien sur mon PC Windows 11, reconnue Immédiatement sans installer de pilotes (Plug&Play) . Maintenant j'ai un débit de fou avec ma Freebox Delta . Et la carte est moins chère que les marques concurrentes . Donc que du bonheur !!