What is the purpose of the 2nd 10G Port? It happens to be selling at the same price as the 1-port card
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Depends on the purpose for your use of the card. They can (of course) be used for seperate tasks.However, for 10G transfers, they generally act together for "teaming" to provide failover when bit rates drop off on one port, to be picked up by the other.I hope that helps.
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It may be to allow segregated network linkage or (per IEEE 802.3ad "teaming" spec) bonding for fault tolerance or load balancing. Teamed/bonded data links are still limited to 10Gb per connection but (theoretically) accommodate a second 10Gb connection; however, those rates will likely be diminished by the channel bonding and buffer management overhead. Segregated links require independent buffers and network management which may saturate a misfit CPU when both channels are highly active. It could also be to promote sale of Xeon-based systems. Download the manual, do the research and make a determination. It may be to allow segregated network linkage or (per IEEE 802.3ad "teaming" spec) bonding for fault tolerance or load balancing. Teamed/bonded data links are still limited to 10Gb per connection but (theoretically) accommodate a second 10Gb connection; however, those rates will likely be diminished by the channel bonding and buffer management overhead. Segregated links require independent buffers and network management which may saturate a misfit CPU when both channels are highly active. It could also be to promote sale of Xeon-based systems. Download the manual, do the research... » Read More It may be to allow segregated network linkage or (per IEEE 802.3ad "teaming" spec) bonding for fault tolerance or load balancing. Teamed/bonded data links are still limited to 10Gb per connection but (theoretically) accommodate a second 10Gb connection; however, those rates will likely be diminished by the channel bonding and buffer management overhead. Segregated links require independent buffers and network management which may saturate a misfit CPU when both channels are highly active. It could also be to promote sale of Xeon-based systems. Download the manual, do the research and make a determination. « Show Less
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You could load balance traffic and provide redundancy using two switches. In case of vmware load balancing traffic is critical.
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It offers you a second 10G interface to either join two networks at the same time or you can bond the two interfaces to create a 20G connection to a manageable switch.
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Yes, one is for data and the other is for power. Sometimes a USB port won't supply enough power through one port. I have used an adapter that just had one USB. This one does require the use of both.
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You need to look at the card you have. If it literally has BCM94321MC printed on it. Its the same card for sale. Thanks, Chris Betamacs
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You are better off using identical cards. Make sure you have a good power supply and good case cooling as 2 of these cards create a lot of heat.
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I just got 3 more from Warehouse Deals 4 Less (different seller). Same deal, it said "B01" on the box, but "E02" on the actual computer. I've been running pogoplug software on top of my arch linux install. I can even stream movies to my mobile device over 4G!these things are an amazing value! the only sadness is that there is no USB 3.0 or (e)SATA... oh well, i guess you can't have everything.For my next trick, I'm gonna try installing a Perforce server on a pogoplug and use it as an asset server for a Unity3D project! wish me luck!
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I am only using the USB3 function of the card. I planned to use the SATA III port for possible future expansion. The set up I use is one USB3 port going to a Seagate 2 TB expansion hard drive (for backup and system images) and the other port to a USB3 hub. I chose this card because of the dual functionality and price.
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The other card is only a addition to the main card it only needs to be mounted to the case no PCI-e port on the secondary card it's connected to the primary by a cable which is sent with the cards
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IF the product you are looking at is model # F7D8301, then it has 2 USB ports. The F7D4301 is the same product, but supposedly a part No. change due to a marketing effort. Belkin makes a zillion routers in the same package, and usually the ones with only 1 USB have a part number ending in 02. Also, the 02s have a lower performance Ethernet switch. Look carefully at the amazon page to try to determine what you are buying. It's hard to tell who is making things more difficult for the buyer, Belkin or Amazon. Look for my review on the F7D8301. It works great with Tomato firmware, and maybe OK with the latest Belkin FW.
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I don't know what you mean by a $ 10.00 generic one, but this is a USB 3.0 Adaptor. It is a 10X faster than a generic 2.0 USB.
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beau. this one here has two ports. one @ 2.1a and another @ 1a. i dont think this combines both porta for a total of 3.1a.
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There's only one port. I doubt that you can connect 2 even with additional cables
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According to Intel (http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/network-adapters/converged-network-adapters/ethernet-x540.html) it's PCIe 2.1. It's well-provisioned (2x the requisite bandwidth in fact) to support dual 10Gbit ports, even if both ports are fully saturated. At least from the PCIe bus perspective. Whether or not the host machine and/or the controller on this card can maintain that kind of rate is another matter.
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It have to be one or the other because it only have one port but I have never tried that configuration that your reffering to
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I believe only two at a time are supported, however I was not able to use this card. It comes with a Low Profile front but could not connect any cable to the sata port as it was to close to the case cover. (so not really low profile useable)
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Can't really answer that since I download and reformat the card after a trip or round of use. However, I can say it's got to be in the hundreds. Also, you can get a class 10 4 gig card for $5 to $10 and not have any concerns.
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The answer is no. This card is designed to replace an older 100 mbs network card or to add in a new system. There is no way that two (2) of these cards could be linked together in order to operate as a single network card. If you install two (2) of these cards on your system, you will have the choice to use one or the other. That is one possibility. The other is that the two cards may conflict will each other making it impossible to access the internet.
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No. Don't waste your money. Only one port worked for me but since it wasn't greatly expensive I didn't ask for a refund.