Yes, this seems to happen more frequent with brands like realtek. All hardware has failure rates, generally speaking more expensive and enterprise gear fails with less frequency, but can still fail. Personally, I don’t enjoy hardware failure, so I invest in stable clean power and great hardware. It may cost more in the overall power budget but is less headache because things just don’t fail as often.
Real server hardware shits the bed all the time.
So, is that an imaginary server?
You said you prefer “real” servers, so are you saying your server isn’t real?
Looks like you don’t understand the concept of a server, a server is not a physical representation of any device, I can make anything a server whenever I so please.
If you get crappy motherboards (server grade) or crappy servers with motherboards they can have any kind of NIC, also they can be connected directly or indirectly to your CPU using or not using PCI lanes.
Here it seemed that you made a poor decision on what you call a server, no labgore here imho.
I’ve used ASUS motherboards with both intel and Realtek NICs (for some reason dual-NIC MBs never have the same chipset)… in a number of years, tugging along in my ESXi cluster hosting 50 VMs - no issues
Soo you are saying you draw a random ass conclusion from an issue which would not exist if you would have made the right hardware choise? got it. Well done.
