M.2 SSD drives for a Dell T320 server

[horizonbrave]

Is that possible to use NVMe drives for for building a pool (with a M.2 connector)?
can I usee this adapter or am I asking for troubles?
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/sta...-sata-6gb-s/apd/a8607305/storage-drives-media
There's some Intel 660p SSDs I was thinking of..

Thanks

 

[Chris Moore]

Take a look at this:
https://www.ixsystems.com/community...donics-ad3m2spx4-m-2-to-pcie-converter.39735/

 

[horizonbrave]

Take a look at this:
https://www.ixsystems.com/community...donics-ad3m2spx4-m-2-to-pcie-converter.39735/

Very Interesting, but it seems fairly more practical (for the goal of fully populating the 8 bays of a Dell T320) to go with the SATA SSDs.. too many adapters in the way otherwise (and things that could go wrong).
Thanks a lot anyway!

 

[R0gerR0ger]

I have an M.2 NVME in my Dell T320. The base OS is sitting on 7200 RPM / 500GB drives in a RAID 10. (fast). Using 4 bays + 1 bay for the hot spare.
The M.2 is connected to the PCI-e x4 slot via an adapter like this:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N78XZCH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o07_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I am getting 2000 MB/s reads and 2100 MB/s writes with an off-brand (silicon power) NVME. This actually gives me a separate drive so I don't have to load down the OS main C: drive. The speeds are a bit wonky (for the seq read). Which I am still investigating.

The M.2 (at the time of this post) is about 60.00 USD, the adapter you can find different types for about 10-20.00 USD. I don't know if this is the solution you want but it's definitely a nice option to have.

Is that possible to use NVMe drives for for building a pool (with a M.2 connector)?
can I usee this adapter or am I asking for troubles?
https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/sta...-sata-6gb-s/apd/a8607305/storage-drives-media
There's some Intel 660p SSDs I was thinking of..

Thanks

 

[TrumanHW]

Are you able to saturate a 10 GbE workstation using NVMe (or any storage array) via your T320 PowerEdge...?

Someone's identifying the "T320's specs" as potentially unable to handle over 200MBs via SMB in FreeNAS as... "It might exceed the CPU's performance (on a 2013 Xeon server CPU) to handle allll the processing power required to encode data for the SMB protocol" ...

Obviously I think it's a rather ridiculous level of skepticism -- BUT, until I CONFIRM this point, I technically don't know.
( Epistemology, you know..? )

Thanks!