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2.5” 2T Samsung ssd on Amazon is $135 and a 2T nvme is slightly cheaper at $125. That $10 in savings is going to totally be eaten in adapters though. So there
by upon_drumhead 4y ago
2.5” 2T Samsung ssd on Amazon is $135 and a 2T nvme is slightly cheaper at $125. That $10 in savings is going to totally be eaten in adapters though.
So there are 5.25” multiple m2 adapters out there like
https://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=255 https://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=255
That one would require a sas controller to connect to.
You generally don’t see a tighter system like blades due to needing a bifurcated pcie slot support, which at that point of server hardware, your are generally not using adapters like this.
- Dylan16807 4y agoThat enclosure isn't m.2, that's 2.5" NVMe. Like a SATA drive but with more pins stuffed in the plug. Though I guess you could put extra adapters inside it. Is the ability to bifurcate a PCIe slot (and avoid extra controllers) that rare? That's a shame.
- upon_drumhead 4y agoWhoops. I linked the wrong model. Middle of that page has a section on all the different options for the drive bay. A few that look very similar are m2 nvme. I have a https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/X10DRH-iT https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/X10DRH-iT and they don’t support bifurcated pcie. It’s a shame cause I’ve extended the life of the servers by using pcie adapters to add high speed io layers and I’m limited to one device per port. I’d love to double that density.