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QUAD M.2 NVMe Ports to PCIe 3.0 x16 Interface (x8 Bandwidth) Bifurcation Riser Controller

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thats like taking your car to a mechanic who doesnt have any tools-any advice given would be a hard pass What’s interesting is that I was able to achieve much higher speeds using this card in an older system, than directly installing one of the SSDs in a new HP Z240 workstation. However, unfortunately due to CPU limitations (maxing the CPU out) of this server used above, I could not fully test, max out, or benchmark the IOPS on an individual SSD. Additional Notes on the IO-PEX40152 If I can populate the front drive bays, I can replicate the NVMe storage to the traditional HDD storage on a frequent basis to protect against failure to some level or degree. By choosing this specific card, I could also use it in any other system that had an available x16 PCIe slot. In my case, my FreeNAS instance will be providing both NAS and SAN services to the network, thus has 2 virtual NICs. On my internal LAN where it’s acting as a NAS (NIC 1), it will be using the default MTU of 1500 byte frames to make sure it can communicate with workstations that are accessing the shares. On my SAN network (NIC 2) where it will be acting as a SAN, it will have a configured MTU of 9000 byte frames. All other devices (SANs, client NICs, and iSCSI initiators) on the SAN network have a matching MTU of 9000. Additional Notes

More and more businesses are using all-flash NVMe and SSD based storage systems, so I figured there’s no reason why I can’t have build and have my own budget custom all NVMe flash NAS. As a note, I had to delete the configuration for the existing management settings (don’t worry, it doesn’t take effect until you hit test) and configure the VLAN interface for my LANs VLAN and IP. I tested the settings, confirmed it was good, and it was all setup.

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We have to make a modification to the PI boot command. It is different depending on which Linux image (Ubuntu or Raspbian) you’re using. For iSCSI, you need to create a zVol and then configure the iSCSI Target settings and make it available. SMB (Windows File Shares)

For some time I’ve been trying to source either an Nvidia GRID K1/K2 or an AMD FirePro S7150 to get started with a simple homelab/demo environment. One of the reasons for the time it took was I didn’t want to spend too much on it, especially with the chances it may not even work. I’m really looking forward to using these in my upcoming blog and YouTube projects. Posted by Stephen Wagner at 4:02 PM Asynchronous – Writes that are made to a filesystem that are marked as completed or successful before the write has actually been completed and committed to the physical media. Specifically we want to disable any services that we aren’t using which may use CPU or memory resources. On my DS1813+ I was having issues with a bug that was causing memory overflows ( the post is here), and while dealing with that, I decided to take it a step further and optimize my unit. Optimize the NASThe current plan for the storage environment is for video editing, as well as VDI VM storage. This can and will change as the project progresses. The History

I’ve had this configuration running for around a week now with absolutely no issues, no crashes, and it’s been very stable. It would not surprise me if, in all honesty, AM6 will only come populated with something like 8 m.2 slots and a single x16 PCIe slot on many models - at least in the consumer space. But this is all conjecture and rumors at this point.

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Update – June 21 2022: I’ve received numerous comments, chats, and questions about whether you can boot your server or computer using this method. Please note that this is all dependent on your server/computer, the BIOS/EFI, and capabilities of the system. In my specific scenario, I did not test booting since I was using the NVME drives purely as additional storage. If you want to just run your stuff right now, my recommendation would be a AMD Ryzen 5 5600 CPU coupled with a Gigabyte Aorus B550M Elite board. You would only want to do this if you had the need for fast storage where data loss would is acceptable (such as video editing, a VDI clone desktop pool, etc).

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