I can’t say for sure- but, there is a good chance I might have a problem.

The main picture attached to this post, is a pair of dual bifurcation cards, each with a pair of Samsung PM963 1T enterprise NVMes.

It is going into my r730XD. Which… is getting pretty full. This will fill up the last empty PCIe slots.

But, knock on wood, My r730XD supports bifurcation! LOTS of Bifurcation.

As a result, it now has more HDDs, and NVMes then I can count.

What’s the problem you ask? Well. That is just one of the many servers I have laying around here, all completely filled with NVMe and SATA SSDs…

Figured I would share. Seeing a bunch of SSDs is always a pretty sight.

And- as of two hours ago, my particular lemmy instance was migrated to these new NVMes completely transparently too.

  • Scott
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    1 year ago

    Do you happen to have a link to those cards?

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        1 year ago

        Sweet!

        I’ve got a gen3 hyper M.2 but I was looking for something for the 8x slots in one of my servers without needing full height cards.

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        1 year ago

        Do you have any trouble with cooling or anything with them? Got like a billion unused PCIe lanes in my Dell R730 and can think of a few things that might benefit from a big NVMe ZFS pool.

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          1 year ago

          Generally, no.

          I run a custom fan control script which keeps the fans around 30% minimum, but increases if needed.

          Below 30% some things were getting toasty