@tman222 said in Actual status Mellanox® ConnectX-3 support:

Chelsio

Hello,

I know that people are very positive about Chelsio cards, but I think it are all cards of an older generation. At least here in Europe I have never seen that shops where offering new Chelsio cards.

However it is true that you can buy them for cheap on ebay (from the USA).

However, I think I am better off with a modern card. As far as I know now:

significant smaller (I am using small mini-ITX-systems, for my FreeNAS ans pFSense); far less heat; (important for multiple reasons: safes energy and is easier to keep cool & quiet !!) pcie3 (at the very least pcie2) more processor off-load (10gbit, smb, iSCSI) Using modern Pentium models, not so powerfull right now. actual and future support

Thinking that way, and as far as I am aware now, realistically seen, there are only two suppliers: Intel (sfp+ x520, x710 or utp x550) and Mellanox (sfp+ connect3). More choices would be great 😊

Intel is OK of course, but is not cheap and they are hardly sold second hand. All recent models are in fact not cheap. And “from the outside” connectX3 seems to have the best price performance, but is it true ….. ?

Do they have the same performance? Do they work "out of the box" And if they are installed, are they working without problems

Louis