Hello.
I have a server based around a SuperMicro X9DRi-F. Sad story about it is that the motherboard lets you bifurcate the lanes in the BIOS, but SuperMicro support says that just because the BIOS lets you do it, doesn't mean it works (they recommended the X10 or newer). I have a couple of the single PCI-E adapters, but I don't want to take up two of my PCI-E slots if there's single slot card that will work.
I had bought one of those ASUS 4x drive x16 PCI-E cards, and no matter what I did the server would only see one NVMe drive.
So, it looks like I need a NVMe adapter card with a PLX chip to handle the switching for the server.
It can either be a x8 card or x16 PCI-E 3.0 card, but it will hopefully support the full speed of the Samsung 970 Evos I have (which are 3500MB/s). For future expandability I would love having a quad PCI-E card, as my server supports full height cards, but I'll take what I get.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks!
I have a server based around a SuperMicro X9DRi-F. Sad story about it is that the motherboard lets you bifurcate the lanes in the BIOS, but SuperMicro support says that just because the BIOS lets you do it, doesn't mean it works (they recommended the X10 or newer). I have a couple of the single PCI-E adapters, but I don't want to take up two of my PCI-E slots if there's single slot card that will work.
I had bought one of those ASUS 4x drive x16 PCI-E cards, and no matter what I did the server would only see one NVMe drive.
So, it looks like I need a NVMe adapter card with a PLX chip to handle the switching for the server.
It can either be a x8 card or x16 PCI-E 3.0 card, but it will hopefully support the full speed of the Samsung 970 Evos I have (which are 3500MB/s). For future expandability I would love having a quad PCI-E card, as my server supports full height cards, but I'll take what I get.
Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Thanks!