Take the 2-minute tour ×  What's the difference between IntelPro
MT and IntelPro PT server adapter cards? Would one of them be
better for iSCSI?   share|improve this question  1 Answer 1  up
vote 1 down vote accepted  The MT's are PCI-X, the PT's are
PCI-e.  Neither offer any hardware iSCSI offload capabilities,
so the faster PCI-e card would be the better of the two, though
really you should be choosing these on the slot type first and
foremost anyway.  If you want iSCSI offload I'd go for one of
their I340 server adapters.  share|improve this answer Great
thanks. Is iSCSI offload important for target and initiator, or
just target? –  Frank Brenner Apr 1 '11 at 8:43 Hardware iSCSI
offload partially assembles packets on the NIC rather than in
CPU, increasing throughput and reducing CPU load on the
initiating server - if you have to use iSCSI I highly recommend
it. –  Chopper3 Apr 1 '11 at 8:48  Your Answer