yep! Funtin adapter should work fine.Can one of these optane drives be used in a PCI-E adapter on an older supermicro x9 machine?
I'm about to try one on an Intel E5 v1/2 board and see how it improves some drives
yep! Funtin adapter should work fine.Can one of these optane drives be used in a PCI-E adapter on an older supermicro x9 machine?
Oh well, let us know how that goes. That was my plan.yep! Funtin adapter should work fine.
I'm about to try one on an Intel E5 v1/2 board and see how it improves some drives
I was planning on doing the exact same on a new ZFS build, but this STH article and others: https://www.servethehome.com/intel-optane-memory-m-2-16gb-32gb-work-servers-zfs-cache-devices/I use Optane 32GB as ZIL on a PCIe M.2 adapter on a SuperMicro X8 motherboard. Works very well. 200x better sync write performance I am on FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE.
diskinfo -wS /dev/nvd2
/dev/nvd2
512 # sectorsize
21474836480 # mediasize in bytes (20G)
41943040 # mediasize in sectors
0 # stripesize
0 # stripeoffset
Virtual disk # Disk descr.
VMWare NVME-0001 # Disk ident.
Synchronous random writes:
0.5 kbytes: 45.2 usec/IO = 10.8 Mbytes/s
1 kbytes: 47.6 usec/IO = 20.5 Mbytes/s
2 kbytes: 46.5 usec/IO = 42.0 Mbytes/s
4 kbytes: 44.6 usec/IO = 87.5 Mbytes/s
8 kbytes: 47.0 usec/IO = 166.2 Mbytes/s
16 kbytes: 49.8 usec/IO = 314.0 Mbytes/s
32 kbytes: 58.6 usec/IO = 533.5 Mbytes/s
64 kbytes: 76.4 usec/IO = 818.3 Mbytes/s
128 kbytes: 114.6 usec/IO = 1091.1 Mbytes/s
256 kbytes: 178.9 usec/IO = 1397.5 Mbytes/s
512 kbytes: 294.3 usec/IO = 1699.2 Mbytes/s
1024 kbytes: 527.2 usec/IO = 1896.7 Mbytes/s
2048 kbytes: 981.7 usec/IO = 2037.3 Mbytes/s
4096 kbytes: 1896.4 usec/IO = 2109.2 Mbytes/s
8192 kbytes: 3739.1 usec/IO = 2139.6 Mbytes/s
root@Carmel-SANG2:~ # diskinfo -wS /dev/da7
/dev/da7
512 # sectorsize
100030242816 # mediasize in bytes (93G)
195371568 # mediasize in sectors
0 # stripesize
0 # stripeoffset
12161 # Cylinders according to firmware.
255 # Heads according to firmware.
63 # Sectors according to firmware.
ATA INTEL SSDSC2BA10 # Disk descr.
BTTV3452001M100FGN # Disk ident.
id1,enc@n500304800139d9fd/type@0/slot@1/elmdesc@Slot_01 # Physical path
Not_Zoned # Zone Mode
Synchronous random writes:
0.5 kbytes: 301.8 usec/IO = 1.6 Mbytes/s
1 kbytes: 294.7 usec/IO = 3.3 Mbytes/s
2 kbytes: 265.3 usec/IO = 7.4 Mbytes/s
4 kbytes: 176.9 usec/IO = 22.1 Mbytes/s
8 kbytes: 191.4 usec/IO = 40.8 Mbytes/s
16 kbytes: 235.7 usec/IO = 66.3 Mbytes/s
32 kbytes: 300.8 usec/IO = 103.9 Mbytes/s
64 kbytes: 433.2 usec/IO = 144.3 Mbytes/s
128 kbytes: 686.3 usec/IO = 182.1 Mbytes/s
256 kbytes: 1265.0 usec/IO = 197.6 Mbytes/s
512 kbytes: 2489.4 usec/IO = 200.8 Mbytes/s
1024 kbytes: 4998.6 usec/IO = 200.1 Mbytes/s
2048 kbytes: 10029.3 usec/IO = 199.4 Mbytes/s
4096 kbytes: 20055.8 usec/IO = 199.4 Mbytes/s
8192 kbytes: 40179.3 usec/IO = 199.1 Mbytes/s