After overcoming my disappointment of not getting 25GBs I decided to tinker around with the SuperMicro AOC-SLG3-2E4 card. I found a solution to the hard to find NVMe cables for those people who did not purchase a intel 750
What would happen if I connected the SuperMicro card using a standard SAS3 cable directly to the Intel NVMe expansion cage? Turns out it works perfectly
Yes I do get that spending 500 on a cage is expensive. However, if we figure out a way to just source the cage and not the riser and the 4 port card it could be much cheaper. On the other hand for I don't think that for Enterprise use the expense for 4 drives using 2 PCI slots would be a show stopper. ($1000.00)
follow the yellow brick road from the SuperMicro card to the Intel cage.
What would happen if I connected the SuperMicro card using a standard SAS3 cable directly to the Intel NVMe expansion cage? Turns out it works perfectly
- No special Cable needed
- I would assume that you can put this cage in other servers
- Hot Swappable drive
- No trying to figure out where to mount all of these drives on the inside of a server
Yes I do get that spending 500 on a cage is expensive. However, if we figure out a way to just source the cage and not the riser and the 4 port card it could be much cheaper. On the other hand for I don't think that for Enterprise use the expense for 4 drives using 2 PCI slots would be a show stopper. ($1000.00)
follow the yellow brick road from the SuperMicro card to the Intel cage.
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