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Yes there are adaptors for M.2 expansion, they vary in options but usually you will be fine with basic ones like this.
Rather than "sell" them, you could keep one for your primary drive and trade the others for a 6-8TB storage drive.
Might feel a bit less "guilty" that way. 🤷♂️
Or if you'd rather keep them all: Most any motherboard will only support 2 drives with your CPU. You can add a PCIe to dual m.2 adapter card for the other two. Then, just combine them into a spanned volume in Windows.
I got 7 PCIe to NVME adapters and they all work no problem. They are cheap chinese garbage ones from amazon. So you shouldn't have an issue. Your motherboard can run 2 NVME's already so just add 2 PCIE adapters.
This is the one I have for example. Note the second slot is SATA nvme so unused.
https://amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL/
It looks like your motherboard only has one M2 SSD slot. There are M2-PCIE adapters available, but I've never used one, this may be an option for you.
I'd suggest returning the M2 SSD and getting a SATA SSD instead, you do have 4 SATA ports on your mobo.
There do exist adapters like this one that require you to connect a SATA cable.
Gotcha. All good! Speaking of PCIe attachments you could also track down an PCIe storage unit which uses M.2s. Not sure if your motherboard even has a PCIe slot but worth it if you want a more modern platform for storage that isn’t SATA. Dual M.2 PCIE Adapter for SATA or PCIE NVMe SSD with Advanced Heat Sink Solution,M.2 SSD NVME (m Key) and SATA (b Key) 22110 2280 2260 2242 2230 to PCI-e x 4 Host Controller Expansion Card https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JKH5VTL/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_ASCF5YX4J8M5ZZ6VHSAJ
You could try one of these. It will power both M.2 slots from the PCIe slot, you can boot off the M.2 SATA SSD, and you can also use a non-boot M.2 PCIe SSD in the other slot now or in the future. There's also a 3-in-1 with an additional mSATA slot.
Based off your pics, it looks like you have an M.2 Sata ssd, and not an M.2 Nvme ssd. If you would still like to use it, I would recommend getting a PCIe expansion slot adapter. Something like this should do:
Dual M.2 PCIE Adapter for SATA or PCIE NVMe SSD with Advanced Heat Sink Solution,M.2 SSD NVME (m Key) and SATA (b Key) 22110 2280 2260 2242 2230 to PCI-e x 4 Host Controller Expansion Card https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JKH5VTL/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_K48WADW52EZ10MF7B9MG
Also for future reference, your motherboard is not an LGA 2011. That is most likely the chipset/cpu socket type. It also looks like you provided a comment that your motherboard is actually for 12th gen? People are looking for more information on the motherboard, not the chipset. This would be something like “ASUS PRIME B660M-A WIFI D4 LGA 1700(Intel 12th Gen) DDR4 mATX Motherboard”. Again, the LGA 1700 mentioned is the chipset. The motherboard I mentioned above looks similar to the motherboard you posted in your pictures, and it does not have any native m.2 Sata slots. However, it does have two m.2 nvme slots. However without more information I can’t be certain that they are the same motherboards.
I personally have not seen any new motherboards natively support m.2 Sata, but I could be incorrect.
I’ve grown fond of this M.2 adapter ($18) in the cMP 5,1. Really handy for cloning drives when upgrading from SATA M.2 to NVMe. The SATA connection plugs into its own port, so it doesn’t share the PCIe connection. There is also a less expensive one ($13) from the same brand that is just a NVMe adaptor.
So if you want to go the budget route - I recommend this Chinese brand because it’s inexpensive, I know it fits and functions in a cMP, and I’ve purchased 5 of them with no defects.
Just looking on Amazon and saw this card if you want to risk trying. It's low profile also and backwards compatable...no driver required.
https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL
Might be worth a try for $17.99
1 pcie slot and more m.2 capacity. Wonderful thing
Dual M.2 PCIE Adapter for SATA or PCIE NVMe SSD with Advanced Heat Sink Solution,M.2 SSD NVME (m Key) and SATA (b Key) 22110 2280 2260 2242 2230 to PCI-e x 4 Host Controller Expansion Card https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JKH5VTL/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_0G406V2PJXZ1HT7J0MGE
you can just drop one of these in your bottom PCIe slot
this supports 1 sata M.2 (requires using a sata cable) and one NVME SSD, on your board the NVME will run at PCIe 2.0 x4 through the chipset when in the bottom most slot
In reference to this link, do i need to plug sata even if my card supports nvme? Will the transfer happen they sata? Then isn't it better if i get sata ssd?
It’s this one: Dual M.2 NVMe card It has an NVMe slot and another M.2 slot for a SATA M.2 drive. The SATA one just connects via a SATA cable, so you can have two drives on one card (one SATA, one NVMe, no bifurcation needed of course).
Can you confirm this is your expansion card?
If so, you need to use top slot to add your M.2 WDC WDS100T2B0B. After doing that, you need to connect the SATA port on the expansion card to one of available SATA ports on the motherboard. After doing this the newly added m.2 should appear in the BIOS as regular SATA drive.
You could do this, and then buy a m.2 drive.
Dual M.2 PCIE Adapter for SATA or PCIE NVMe SSD with Advanced Heat Sink Solution,M.2 SSD NVME (m Key) and SATA (b Key) 22110 2280 2260 2242 2230to PCI-e 3.0 x 4 Host Controller Expansion Card https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JKH5VTL/ref=cm_sw_r_u_apa_fabc_73QGQKHX74H5C1J5QM68
Exact model? And the adapters model? I haven't heard of a NVME -> SATA adapter. Although there are adapters that have two M.2 ports, with the another being for SATA drive (and has a SATA cable) and the another for NVME. The NVME part is wired throught the PCI-E port.
Something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL
Why not use a m.2 to pci-e card? Just because the motherboard doesn't have an m key on the silicone doesn't mean the fun has to stop. They're less than $20 and would have been a very large increase in storage bandwidth.
Its not a massive issue on z390 but if you use dual gpu and don't have bifurcation it can be. On my gigabyte z390 ud I had my gpu in my x16 slot, network card in my second slot, and nothing in my third slot. If I left my nvme drive in the one m.2 slot on the board it disabled the third pcie slot so i couldn't use one of these. I had to get this and throw my nvme m.2 and my sata m.2 drives in there and leave my motherboards m.2 slot empty. Alternatively I could've put my sata m.2 drive in my motherboard and put the nvme one in a pci adapter.
If I used bifurcation to switch the pcie lanes to 8x4x4 the third slot was still disabled if an nvme ssd was in the m.2 slot. So bifurcation might not even help.
I ended up switching to a ggiabyte z390 aorus pro wifi with two m.2 slots and wifi built in to free up my pcie slots from my wifi card and m.2 pci card.
I've got 7 of these running no issue. https://amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL/ the drives write at full speed.
Your machines aren't bad for your purpose, you just need to be a little creative about how you jam more storage and network bandwidth into them.
Some thoughts (it's allergy season and I've had too many cups of coffee today so I apologize in advance for the organization here):
You'll want to use the HDDs for bulk storage and make a separate fast pool (all flash) for your VMs especially if you're going to cluster your storage.
Running VMs off an HDD pool without caching is going to be a bad time; your storage will be a significant performance bottleneck. Trying to run VMs off clustered HDDs with cluster traffic over 1GbE is going to be a really bad time and you probably don't want to do it.
Caching presents it's own limitations and complexities, it's easier and more reliable if you just build separate pools and don't invent your own tiered storage unless you really know what you're doing.
There should be an additional SATA port for the optional slim optical drive in each of those machines; you can use that to add another SATA SSD (they make slim ODD to 2.5" mounts just for this purpose.) Adding an additional SSD here allows you to have the host OS on one SSD as well as a separate SSD for a Ceph fast pool without buying additional PCIe cards.
You really want at least 10GbE if you're going to cluster your VM storage, look for a cheap Brocade ICX6450 (24 or 48 port, the 12 port doesn't have SFP+) on eBay and go to the Brocade ICX thread on servethehome for help with the 10GbE port licenses. This will cost you less than $150 for 4 SFP+ ports, these switches are a steal. If you want 8x SFP+ ports look for an ICX7250, you'll pay $250-300 for 8 10Gb ports and the ICX7xxx series has an honor-system evaluation license with no time limit.
You have two PCIe expansion slots -- you can use the low-profile PCIe 2.0 slot for a 10GbE card without too many issues (some cards get cranky if they're in an x4 slot; Mellanox CX-2 expect to be in an x8 slot and do weird things in x4) and use the PCIe 3.0 slot for NVMe/SATA storage. I think Mellanox CX-3 single port 10Gb cards (they make a PCIe 3.0 x4 model) will negotiate down to 2.0 and work in that 2.0 slot without performance issues.
If you can use the 2.0 slot for 10GbE you could add an adapter like this one to the 3.0 slot -- this will let you add one more SATA SSD and an NVMe SSD. That would let you have up to 3 SSDs per chassis without using any of the front bays (one in the ODD bay and two on the add-in card.)
Anyway, you have options and can definitely make these work.
Edit: Ceph tiering is basically legacy tech at this point and not recommended. The last time I looked the recommended advice was to use LVM caching instead.
Another thought, if you're just dealing with the 3 nodes you could point-to-point link all of them with DACs without a switch, that's a really easy solution for cluster traffic.
If you want to do something weird like make a ZFS pool including SSDs that you can't directly boot from you can stick /boot/ and GRUB on an SD card in the motherboard slot; same deal if you want your root filesystem on an NVMe drive or something weird like external USB storage.
Probably the easiest thing to do is add this adapter if it fits your build or similar adapter.
For bottom you need an NVMe ssd. Such as
https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100011693%20601356771%20600414920%20600640786&Order=1
HW wise you are not far from my own. Sadly the solution is not a one shot fix all, and I'll try to stick to the pertinent as best I can, but this is still going to be a wall of text.
As the largest bottleneck is the game parsing its own dat files, starting with a SSD upgrade helps a bit. Depending on your mainboard, you can step that up with a M.2 and adapter like this one. Just make sure the adapter matches the ability of your BIOS as some newer ones require bifurcation that will not work with older gen BIOS without a USB boot utility.
Note here: if you get a M.2 plan for a future mainboard/cpu/ram upgrade. If you are getting a run of the mill 2.5" SATA SSD, stick with what suits your existing hardware capabilities. Spend or skimp as you see fit of course, I just see the M.2 being worth of more investment as it is transportable with newer hardware where a SATA SSD would be more likely to be relegated to an extra data data drive or external USB shell when you do finally upgrade your current kit.
A couple tips to start faster and run smoother are to add -skipintro -nosoundthrottle -nocputhrottle to your launch options and run the game in borderless window. Other tweaks in-game are the usual graphic setting adjustments to lower or turn off shadows and fluff lighting effects.
If like me you find that the NPC rendering causes performance and stability issues, manually editing %userprofile%\documents\Egosoft\X4\18701374\config.xml can also help. Open the file in notepad and scroll to the bottom. Find <chardensity> (controls number of random NPCs wandering around stations and ship bridges) and <trafficdensity> (controls number of random civilian traffic around stations) and lower the parameters as needed - I have mine set to 0.00 and 0.25 respectively.
A mods like Player Services also help reduce NPC interaction issues by providing alternate access to most station de-boarding functions (workbench, mod station, vendors, most conversations). Some story /mission remote interactions are not 100% with this mod and you still have to exit ship to station, but they are rather few.
The one thing that has yet to evolve are settings or mods to effectively relocate or eliminate the annoying comms window that can trigger a NPC render glitch (and blocks info text). The only way to effectively deal with the comms window atm is to go into your global orders and remove most of the Notify Me alert options.
During game play, get used to only having map filters enabled (top tight: Trade, Mining, and Other) as you need them as they do kill your FPS and scrips/macro/ai processing speed while active, and the effect gets worse the more assets you have to keep track of. Mods like Sector Satellites are also of great use as it reduces the need for over exposing the FoW (fog of war).
You'll also want to avoid building 'mega stations' as they will eventually kill your game with CTD's just trying to load into them. I'd suggest staying with disbursed smaller stations spread out over larger areas. This will require more assets overall to move wares where they are needed, but keeps the game playable when you load into your own sectors. I find that limiting my stations to an effective workforce of 5k is a good bar to keep under.
My one exception was my Bolthole Shipyard with a 40k population to crew my private ship builds that is tucked away in the ass end of a dead end system that I never go to personally, but even now as my empire is getting even larger I am breaking that down into smaller disbursed shipyards. That just leaves my BIO ARG 35k farms that will support up to 30k workforce in addition to its own 5k needs as my densest stations.
On that note, station building, staying with smaller station designs means I also do not trip the render glitch of being in the station builder for too long. For some reason, that UI (or its backend) really does not handle being open in one go for very long. It can also be triggered by trying to manipulate overly large module segments. FYI, the glitch most often presents as an instant hard lag fest followed by a sudden CTD - which I have managed to trigger just by being in the solo station designer.
There are other little things that are more common like IS vs OOS performance of minions and having to micromanage too many things that should be more automated or at least have appropriately diverse settings and options - but these being more common are subject to very diverse solutions from basic game play adjustments to using mods, so I'll leave you the joys of personal discovery and research on those.
ok serious comment now. on the bottom right of your board, just to the right of the chipset heatsink there are 6 sata ports to which you can connect sata drives. if you dont want sata as they're slower, and only one pcie slot is in use, you can get a pcie m.2 card such as this one ([m.2 pcie adapter]https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL) or a pcie m.2 drive such as this one (m.2 pcie ssd
I have three adapters.
One Dual Card (that's not really dual) I'm only using the NVME and I am not using the SATA.
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Two Single Card
I know its not a perfect answer, but I would not go thru SAS, rather a PCI-e card. A RAID controller that does not support nvme is likely not going to work. m.2-> U.2 -> SAS is a strange and new approach for me, and it is my understanding that these types of devices (m2 vs SAS) are apples and oranges.
A single nvme m2 drive with a PCI-e 3.0 adapter will run circles around your entire RAID array, even if you had 24 SAS SSD all plugged into this box as a RAID0. Going thru SAS and what is likely an old controller is going to slow you down.
https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL
Alternately, you can choose not to use the venerable RAID controller this server ships with in exchange for a device that can natively do nvme raid with m2 drives, these devices are not cheap.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1684809-REG/highpoint_ssd7140a_ssd7140_pcie_3_0_8_port.html
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Considering the age of the system, It may be possible to use ZFS in RAID1 for those nvme devices, but I think you would see bottlenecks that would prevent you from getting the full performance of a single nvme drive.
Good luck have fun.
Somethis like:
https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL
or
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https://www.amazon.com/mSATA-Adapter-Card-Aluminum-Heatsink/dp/B07L8L8QMS
Are these compatible
You can get a PCiE expansion card. Example. Supports M.2 Sata and NVME.
That literally shows in the photo that you have to plug in a SATA cable if you're using a SATA keyed M.2 drive.
https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL
Look at the third photo.
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There is a chart on P.34 on the user manual explaining what happens when you occupy the ports. If you plug in anything into M2_2, it will disconnect Sata5/6.
You can, however use a +2 M.2 SSD expansion card on PCI_E2/4 with minimal issue.
https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL#customerReviews
Just need something like that to add m.2
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You could get a pcie adapter: Dual M.2 PCIE Adapter for SATA or PCIE NVMe SSD with Advanced Heat Sink Solution,M.2 SSD NVME (m Key) and SATA (b Key) 22110 2280 2260 2242 2230 to PCI-e x 4 Host Controller Expansion Card https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JKH5VTL/
That would plug into one of your pci slots below your video card and allow for further expansion.
It also looks like you have some sata plugs, so you could just get a sata ssd, and go that route too.
SAMSUNG 870 EVO 1TB 2.5 Inch SATA III Internal SSD (MZ-77E1T0B/AM) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08QBJ2YMG/
Why not a Pcie to NVMe adapter card? https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL/
You can get an M.2 dongle for one of your PCIE lanes. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07JKH5VTL/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_VZA34CAS7EET646GSTDN?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
So when it doesn't show up on windows (in disk parton or my computer) I'll shut off windows open up the computer and re seat the adapter. I bought this one https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL
man, I just put a samsung nvme in my desktop (dell precision t3610) just last tuesday using one of these adaptors. seems to be working great. the bios menu reported it as a storage device.
that adapter looks like it should work. all it's doing is directly connecting the nvme to the pcie slot. I'm not sure why it's not working unless your bios simply doesn't support pcie storage devices.
I will say this, my bios doesn't support booting off a pcie device so I ended up using my sata ssd as the boot device with root and home on the nvme. my wiki post shows what I did.
Be careful when choosing, card at the site below is a nvme and SATA for example. https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL/ref=asc_df_B07JKH5VTL/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=319955522114&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2678147470244817752&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hv...
You will need something like the website below, or like the Asus hype m.2
https://www.newegg.com/riitop-2nv-pce8x-pci-express-controller-card/p/17Z-0061-00089
I have, worked well for me so far, although I haven't benchmarked it. Using a 16 in one system and 32 in another. Currently using this adapter: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JKH5VTL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I tried this one first, but it wouldn't read it for some reason: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075MDH28Y/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
if you cant return the drive you can run it with an adaptor definitely as extra storage and maybe even as a boot drive not sure https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&keywords=m.2+adapter&qid=1611177495&sr=8-6
Any recommendations for an m.2 SATA SSD adapter?
I've been looking at things like these two, but reviews mentioning them catching fire are not reassuring.
If it's a 2.5 inch drive, that's tricky. Does the server have a DVD drive? You can see if its power cable would work if you got an adapter for it (it probably isn't the same physical size and shape, but might be electrically compatible).
Generally, in these situations, your best bet is to get a PCIe card with an M.2 slot. If your server supports booting from an NVMe SSD that's great, but a lot of older systems don't, and then some e.g. Dell 12-th generation (e.g. R420) and newer have a firmware lockout to prevent booting from non-dell PCIe media. So, in that case, get a PCIe M.2 card with a SATA M.2 SSD slot and an actual SATA connector on the PCIe card, i.e. a card where the SSD is powered by the PCIe bus, but its SATA data is provided by a cable--connect that cable to the onboard motherboard port. This solves your power issue, and since the SATA connection goes to the onboard motherboard port, it's likely to work as boot media in almost any server.
These are examples such cards:
https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL
https://www.amazon.com/M-2-Adapter-Port-PCIe-Express/dp/B01IR05DLK
You can always buy a M.2 extender that goes into a PCIE slot. Something similar to this
That's awesome to hear, going by what u/flaming_m0e I just didn't have enough knowledge of how HBA worked and now need to connect the SSD to a secondary controller. I do have SATA ports on the mobo that I can use for the SSD, I just need to figure out how to power the SSD and mount it somewhere internally. While doing some searching online, I came across another method I can use and that is to get a PCI M.2 or a PCI SATA adapter and use that to host the SSD or M.2 I would like to use for my VM datastore.
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I'm doing this more as an informational, so people who follow can learn from my... educational experience... and not repeat the same many things that aren't supported don't work. Some do... Here is what I found did work.
Server:
HPDL380p Gen8
Dual Intel 2690 CPU
64GB Ram
Dual 1200W Power supplies
Booting from M.2 Drive
P2000 NVIDIA GPU
LSI 9850-E MEGARAID card. Attached to DS4246 External Chassis and External mirrored M.2 Drive for Cachecade
DS4246 With Seagate 7E8 4Kn 8TB drives
USB 3.0 Additional Ports.
HP 10GB Ethernet Card, Connected with Cisco Twinax to Nexus 9K
HP 1GB Ports (three) connected to Three Different Ubiquity 1GB physical LAN's.
Running Plex (Current Oct 2020 Version) and
Running EMBY concurrently
Zero Issues at present. Able to handle multiple BlueRay and HD Transcodes fine.
What I learned:
M.2 Boot using using M.2 Card (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JKH5VTL/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1) which the Server finds no issue with EXCEPT: You MUST connect the SATA port for the CD ROM drive to the CARD. The DL380p won't actually boot from PCI M.2 (that I can seeming make happen) This gives you the ability to use all drive slots for storage.
I added also USB 3.0 for the server to help random USB drive loads https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Y7KQ7KM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 This was a little tricky, but if you download the latest driver (as of October 2020) there was no issues getting Windows and the Server to see the USB card.
I added the NVIDIA P2000. Why? Because unless you love to listen to the fans on the DL380 rev up when you end up transcoding movies... Why this card? Because of its ability to handle multiple streams at the same time (vs 1 or 2) being a limiting factor with many other nvidia GPUs. I've done multiple blueray transcodes.. and were doing fine.
I added the LSI 9850-E RAID Card. I can confirm with the latest (as of October 2020) firmware - You may have to update the firmware - that the HP server has no issues with the card.
I attached this to a NTAP DS4246. Running Seagate EXOS 7E8 8TB SAS drives. Note: The LSI 9850-e will need to be on newer firm ware to see the 4Kn drives. You will need the right cable ( QSFP to Mini SAS SFF-8088 DDR Cable, SFF-8436 to SFF-8088 Cable, 0.5 ~ 3 meters )
I Leveraged a SAS to SATA (SAS SFF-8088 to 4 SATA 7pin) cable attached to: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00VNVMKCG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 and two https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B073SB2MXT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 M.2 drives. needed to purchase the hardware key for the 9850-E for CacheCade. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/LSI-MegaRIAD-CacheCade-Pro2-0-Caching-Software-LSI00290-L5-25188-04-Physical-Key/312718210687?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649) I mirrored the 1TB M.2 Disks to act as front end cache for the SAS drives. I mounted it in a external DVD duplicator housing. (Which doesn't have any DVD's, just has a the power supply for miscellaneous external attachments I need on severs. (https://www.ebay.com/itm/Naked-Case-11-Bay-9-Burners-SATA-CD-DVD-Duplicator-Enclosure-Case-Replicator/261027168770?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649) This case, while not pretty is awesome. The Power supply has enough power connections for like anything you need to put in this case.
No errors so far from CacheCade or the fact that none of that hardware is on the support matrix for the LSI card. NOTE: You will need the correct battery (https://www.ebay.com/itm/LSI-s-BBU09-BAT1S1P-A-Cable-LSI00279-for-9265-9266-9270-9271-9285-9286/142478918404?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649) NOTE: the cable for this battery!! Ugh. Also NOTE: this battery uses M2.5 (Not M2 or M3 screws. SMH) to attach to (NOT THE RAID CARD) something in your server.
and a place to put it (https://www.ebay.com/itm/LSI-BBU-BRACKET-05-REMOTE-MOUNTING-BRACKET-BOARD-BATTERY-BACKUP-UNIT-ASSEMBLY-US/333576188395?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649 )
Added HP 10GB Card (https://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-Ethernet-10Gb-Dual-Port-530SFP-PCI-e-Adapter-652501-001-SFP/293595325009?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649) Using a Cisco SFP-H10GB-CU5M - SFP+ Cable 5 Meter Twinax Passive Cable - 37-0962-03 to Connect to my Nexus 9K Switch
you will also need a second riser card for the server. (As in this configuration all six slots are used) 662524-001 HP ProLiant DL380p G8 3-Slot PCI-e Riser Board & Cage
I think this is the sum of the issues that I ran into, it took a few weeks of troubleshooting and trying to make sure I had the correct parts. Lots of re-orders as I got lots of things that didn't work. PCI cards that the HP server refused to use correctly, etc.
I hope this helps one person follow forward with their build with a little more confidence.
Lots of 2x b-key; all the 4x seem to be NVME.
Yes, I couldn't agree more. The alternative solution is to get a pcie nvme/sata card which can be fitted at the pci_e4 and install the sata m2 on it. Eg. https://www.amazon.sg/dp/B07JKH5VTL/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_RiHLFbT6MX8KX
>PCIe to M.2 adapter
https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL
Maybe looking for something like this?
something like that. i have one made by startech with both nvme and sata m.2 ports so its pretty nifty to have around.
Don't you have separate m.2 slots for that? AFAIK, most SSDs run at PCIe x4, so I wonder if you can buy that "hub" for 4 SSDs mounted on one full-length card. Something like this: https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=SSD+mounting+card+PCIe&qid=1596890334&sr=8-5
Also Elgato 4K60 Pro does offer HDR10 signal into passthrough, you can forget about actually outputting an HDR signal into your broadcast because no streaming service outputs and HDR signal at this moment. https://www.amazon.com/Elgato-Game-Capture-4K60-MK-2/dp/B07VWXCXM7
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Just buy a PCiE NVME adapter, and keep both drives. $15 on amazon. That's my setup in my Aurora.
https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL/
You can try use Nvme Sata M.2 SSD Adapter PCIE Card
Dual M.2 PCIE Adapter for SATA or PCIE NVMe SSD With advanced heat sink solution,M.2 SSD NVME (m key) or SATA (b key) 22110 2280 2260 2242 2230to PCI-e 3.0 x 4 Host Controller Expansion Card
https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-advanced-solution-Controller-Expansion/dp/B07JKH5VTL
Price: $16.99
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