So i recently bought a Orico USB-c nvme case off ebay that actually came with a 32+512GB Intel H10. Paid not much more than a new Orico, so i figured what the heck, because my Mobo has a "intel optane ready" M.2 slot.
I already knew that i would not be able to expose both the 3dxpoint chip and the nand chip as two separate block devices from reading about it, but still i secretly hoped that it would have some hidden setting to enable the 3dxpoint chip by adding a nvme namespace or something. No such luck.
But the point is there are thousands of H10's for sale at like 10-15$ each, and while they are slow, they still would make quite handy ZIL/L2ARC or L2ARC/special devices for home usage. Especially 4 of them in a cheap PLX pcie3x16 to 4x pcie3 M.2 adapter.
There are firmware updates for them which you can flash with the intel/solidigm tool.
So question is, is there no way to hack these to expose both block devices in linux? What is the secret that intel RST uses? Would it be a fun project for someone that really knows low level hardware stuff?
Edit, how do they show up in windows with Intel RST? If they are exposed as 2 devices, how about running some windows light VM with the H10 in pcie passthrough, and then exposing the block devices via iscsi targets to proxmox lol
I already knew that i would not be able to expose both the 3dxpoint chip and the nand chip as two separate block devices from reading about it, but still i secretly hoped that it would have some hidden setting to enable the 3dxpoint chip by adding a nvme namespace or something. No such luck.
But the point is there are thousands of H10's for sale at like 10-15$ each, and while they are slow, they still would make quite handy ZIL/L2ARC or L2ARC/special devices for home usage. Especially 4 of them in a cheap PLX pcie3x16 to 4x pcie3 M.2 adapter.
There are firmware updates for them which you can flash with the intel/solidigm tool.
So question is, is there no way to hack these to expose both block devices in linux? What is the secret that intel RST uses? Would it be a fun project for someone that really knows low level hardware stuff?
Edit, how do they show up in windows with Intel RST? If they are exposed as 2 devices, how about running some windows light VM with the H10 in pcie passthrough, and then exposing the block devices via iscsi targets to proxmox lol