Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artÃ*culo ,
Clive George escribió:

Intel don't appear to sell cards not described as "Server Adapters", so
if you're buying Intel, that is the standard one.

They do/did a range of "desktop" adapters too. I suspect the difference
is just in the naming and, perhaps, they use the same controller chip
and disable some of the more advanced features in the "desktop" version
drivers.

I was looking at older versions of those, and the different was the Desktop
adaptors were PCI, and the Server adaptors PCI-X. So there was a
performance difference, but only because servers had a faster slot (that
wouldn't take PCI cards).

On the current ones the difference seems to be virtualisation, multiple
ports and fibre options - all hardware features that the average home user
doesn't care about.

Theo