Whats your opinion on those kinda cheap pcie to 8643 or oculink cards like this one?
They are only 30$ and would allow me to connect 4 u2 drives (probably raid z1 or 10) to some of my supermicro x10 and x11 servers that would otherwise not be able to use u2. (i know the backplanes wont support it soi am just gona use them internally)
Those servers are mainly used as hypervisors and my goal is to get better iops performance, bc the current intel dc sata ssds can barrely do 35k write each, the u2 i have been looking at on the other side can do around 400k write each.
Just for understanding, those are simple pcie adapter not hba cards, so sas drives wont work on those, correct?
Do they have drawbacks compared to conventional trimode hbas?
Are there any kind of expander cards for those or would the only way to add new drives be, just add more cards?
Thx
They are only 30$ and would allow me to connect 4 u2 drives (probably raid z1 or 10) to some of my supermicro x10 and x11 servers that would otherwise not be able to use u2. (i know the backplanes wont support it soi am just gona use them internally)
Those servers are mainly used as hypervisors and my goal is to get better iops performance, bc the current intel dc sata ssds can barrely do 35k write each, the u2 i have been looking at on the other side can do around 400k write each.
Just for understanding, those are simple pcie adapter not hba cards, so sas drives wont work on those, correct?
Do they have drawbacks compared to conventional trimode hbas?
Are there any kind of expander cards for those or would the only way to add new drives be, just add more cards?
Thx