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Intel X550-T2 (RJ45)
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Intel X550-T2

RJ45


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7 reviews

  • johndieckm

    4 years ago
    purchased this product

    Bravo

    Immediately recognised with Ubuntu Server LTS. Low power consumption. Original Intel OEM.Super!

  • cwriter

    3 years ago
    purchased this product

    Meh

    The X550 is the classic 10Gbit NIC and is now 5 years old. In Linux and Windows the drivers are now mature, in BSD half of them do not work or do not work properly.

    The X550 has features like SR-IOV and therefore makes sense
    especially in virtualised environments. In FreeBSD 12 (OpnSense), the card often crashes with VLANs and/or SR-IOV, goes into "NO-CARRIER" or simply drops everything. On reboots, it then throws ECC errors into the console and you have to reboot twice.

    Under Linux (Debian 10), on the other hand, it runs smoothly, but still red-hot. But that's no great wonder, since the thermal pad is about 4mm thick and the cooler can bob nicely on it and has an incredibly low contact pressure.
    The low-profile PCIe bracket that comes with the cooler seems to have holes for the ports that are a little too small and is quite a hassle to fit.

    The various offloads at least work as advertised.

    Nevertheless: rather disappointing for just under 300CHF. If you want 10Gbit in a decent design, you'd better take a motherboard with 10Gbit support (most boards use cheaper Aquantia NICs, but AsrockRack has some with x550 onboard). The chips also get hot, but you get a decent cooling block.

    Otherwise, this card is unfortunately pretty much the only affordable multi-port 10Gbit NIC on the market and you have to take what you get.
     

    Pro

    • 10Gbit

    Contra

    • Hot
    • Cooling block badly mounted
    • Expensive
    • Poor support in *BSD
  • zgpeter

    5 years ago
    purchased this product

    I test this now times free of charge ...

    Unfortunately does not look like the picture with metal screws for the radiator. It is a slightly different cooler that is 'attached' with plastic screws. There is no Intel hologram sticker or Intel logo on the PCB either.
    The
    adapter looks exactly like the first picture here on Ebay though: www.ebay.com/itm/New-Intel-X550-T2-10G-Ethernet-Server-Adapt...
    The processor seems to be from Intel anyway.
    The manufacturer should perhaps be stated correctly. E.g. it can be 10Gtek. Otherwise it can be difficult with the drivers.
     

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