It always seems to me that so many people who comment on Slashdot have an incredibly narrow view of the IT industry. A product like this is not intended for the home user. This is an enterprise product, designed for use in compute environments where you are shipping large volumes of data amongst computers, where removing the CPU load from the system free's up cycles for the system to do the real work it is intended for, and keep those CPUs supplied with enough data, so you're not waiting on IO. Enterprise adapters demand a significantly higher price than the $25 card you're putting into your uber gaming machine. When you're talking about systems with 20+ CPU's and 40+ gigs of RAM, you're in a different league altogether.
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It always seems to me that so many people who comment on Slashdot have an incredibly narrow view of the IT industry. A product like this is not intended for the home user. This is an enterprise product, designed for use in compute environments where you are shipping large volumes of data amongst computers, where removing the CPU load from the system free's up cycles for the system to do the real work it is intended for, and keep those CPUs supplied with enough data, so you're not waiting on IO. Enterprise adapters demand a significantly higher price than the $25 card you're putting into your uber gaming machine. When you're talking about systems with 20+ CPU's and 40+ gigs of RAM, you're in a different league altogether.