What's the best network card out there, Holla Forums?

Yeah, rotational velocidensity will fuck you up. Opus is doing promising things with CELT (specifically PVQ) but I'm sticking with lossless for long-term storage.

I've never been able to understand the point of gayman networking hardware. I mean, they offer literally no features over your average soho router/switch. At least gayman keyboards and mice have muh macros/muh no accel sensors.

There is no point, but they can still pretend. Actual latency due to the network card is measured in microseconds.

Remember to rotate your velociraptors every 6 months. Also if you use deskstars, drain the "spindle sweat" annually.

If you did this 5 years ago, good find. But in 2CY, you can get dual 10Gb melanox cards for $40.

1 network card = 1 additional driver you have to trust
Unless it's an FSF approved card, there is no reason to buy it.

Features like Remote Direct Memory Access.

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This. PFSense on an old box is literal leaps and bounds ahead of anything out there consumer-grade.

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