Depending on your needs, these cards (or a lot of them at least, since it is easy to saturate the PCI bus) may not give you the highest performance, but for most applications I find that it is more than sufficient (I have it setup on Zoneminder camera servers, Samba servers, NFS file servers, among other things). It just might not be best for say putting a database on.
I've looked at trying to find a reliable means to monitor whether the PCI bus is being saturated, only to come up with what seemed like a hardware gimmick. Is there a way to determine if the PCI bus is being saturated within the OS? I suppose one could calculate the theoretical PCI bus throughput in Mb/s, but this doesn't seem very concrete to me since the quality of hardware often determines if the top thresholds can be met.
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