I'm looking to pick up 4x 2tb nvme drives to do a windows storage spaces parity array for vhd storage and code repo.
My question is what pcie card would be best for it. Will I see a noticeable difference between the different levels of cards?
The offical dell one is $170:
But Asus has one for $55:
Then there's konyead for $199:
Are these adapters just direct passthrough or are they doing something which will affect how fast they operate? I'm no stranger to cheap hba's that have crap speeds, but right now, i don't want that.
Right now I store my vhd's on 4 arrays consisting of 6 disks in raid 5 for a total of 24 disks on an lsi 2.5" DAS connected to a dell r310 which has multiple 10gb nics out to switches that are connected by 10gb nics to r630 vm servers with 2680 v3's and 128gb ram. I'm trying to consolidate down to a single t5810 with e5 2699 v4 22 core with 256gb ram and this will be my storage. So it needs to be at least equal, or preferably better than this.
My question is what pcie card would be best for it. Will I see a noticeable difference between the different levels of cards?
The offical dell one is $170:
But Asus has one for $55:
Then there's konyead for $199:
Are these adapters just direct passthrough or are they doing something which will affect how fast they operate? I'm no stranger to cheap hba's that have crap speeds, but right now, i don't want that.
Right now I store my vhd's on 4 arrays consisting of 6 disks in raid 5 for a total of 24 disks on an lsi 2.5" DAS connected to a dell r310 which has multiple 10gb nics out to switches that are connected by 10gb nics to r630 vm servers with 2680 v3's and 128gb ram. I'm trying to consolidate down to a single t5810 with e5 2699 v4 22 core with 256gb ram and this will be my storage. So it needs to be at least equal, or preferably better than this.