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Sorta-want. by: General Lee D. Mented on 3/27/2009
It's a nice idea, though these days the trend seems to be just toss your torrents/shares on either an older machine, aka a "home server", or a little integrated HD enclosure/video playback/torrenter a la Mvix/Avix etc, and then just bandwidth manage the device on a decent router. Putting all the CPU power on the NIC harkens back to ye olde days of SCSI and even Mainframe Channel-IO, a trend that was drowned under a sea of MMX-powered CPU-sucking winmodems in the mid-90s (See Packard Bell: The Horror).

These days with systems having more cores than they know what to do with, is an independent NIC really worth it? Maybe. But I'm thinking better optimized drivers and OSes would outperform it if any such things came to pass. RaidCore bet on that and they had some awesome performance data out of "software" RAID, but alas they are gone now.

Still, if nothing else it's something to fill one of those useless x1 PCIe slots with. But the way the trend in case formfactors are going (MicroATX is gaining, with Mini-ITX almost useable and DTX actually appearing on search engines), it would probably work better in a 5.25" bay, which cases seem to have an excess of these days (i.e. more than one since all drives are integrated-everything RW now). Even if it connected via internal cable to the PCIe slot with an ethernet breakout on the slot cover (for those who hate front cables). Plus then there'd be room for a nifty status LCD!
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