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The Supermicro AOC-STGN-i2S may look like a fairly mundane card, but it has a very complete feature set. For anyone that has setup difficult fibre channel controllers, iSCSI controllers, or Infiniband controllers can attest to, ease of installation for high-speed data networking equipment is not always on the feature list. Setting up the Supermicro AOC-STGN-i2S was very simple as one can use the Intel Network Connections software/ PROSet drivers, for example, in Windows Server 2008 R2 and have everything setup within a matter of minutes. The Supermicro AOC-STGN-i2S was very simple and after Intel driver installation worked like any other Ethernet adapter. Performance With SSDs being commonly deployed as cache drives, and these SSDs now pushing over 400MB/s (such as the Corsair Performance 3 series P3-128), a 125MB/s represents a clear bottleneck. Add to this the fact that SSDs offer a ton of performance in RAID 0 and RAID 5 scenarios, and one can see that these cache setups can now easily surpass 1GB/s. With every new storage generation, and every new server CPU generation, a need for greater performance, or 10 Gigabit Ethernet in today’s terms. Some users may be asking why not just use NIC teaming, which is a common feature with most modern NICs. Using NIC teaming, one can speed up access to the server from multiple PCs, but teaming does little to help a single user accessing large files on a storage server. Furthermor, to achieve 10 Gigabit performance, one can replace ten cables carrying 1 Gigabit links with one cable carrying a 10 Giagabit link. For datacenters and heavily occupied server racks, cutting common cabling by 90% provides clear advantages. I did not spend copious amounts of time configuring the networking. Since at 10 Gigabit speeds hard drives have issues coping, I setup both the Xeon E3 series testbeds and the Dual Xeon L5640 testbed with RAM drives and direct connect cables to cope with the I/O demands. I will say, I am working on the network testing methodology, so this is probably directionally correct and real-world usage will vary:Read full review
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