Found a killer deal on a P3608 1.6TB. Saw the r/w speeds, huge endurance, amazing, ordered it immediately, figured it was thanks to the pcie 3.0 x8 interface…
Well after doing some more reading, (after ordering it *facepalm*) apparently it’s mostly thanks to the fact that its actually two pools of NAND, with two controllers running in RAID0 to achieve the full capacity and performance in a single physical drive. Well apparently this RAID0 configuration requires Intel RST enterprise driver to setup, and according to Intel documentation requires (maybe?) a xeon processor. Fantastic, I don’t have a xeon processor, but rather an AMD R7 2700 and I’d really like to set it up as my main bootable drive for my linux based workstation.
My system is a B450 based Ryzen 2700 system running Ubuntu 18.04LTS. I plan to run the drive in the main x16 slot, straight off the CPU so physical link isn’t a problem. (Shoved the single slot gpu down to a PCIe 2.0 x4 slot) Intel documentation includes instructions for how to compile the linux kernel with the Intel NVME drivers included, is that the correct route? Or would I still need the RSTe software? Or should I look into AMDs raid software? Or simply follow the steps for softraid during installation of Ubuntu?
Anyone familiar with this drive? Or how to properly set it up as a boot drive in RAID0? Is this even possible
Worst case scenario I use it as a data drive rather than my boot drive. Though the goal was to have a single, very fast, larger capacity drive rather than my current collection of random SSDs. Or I guess I could resell it and get a cheapo Sabrent Rocket M.2 PCIe 2TB drive, instead, which is way less complicated but being a consumer TLC drive with minimal DRAM it will be brought to it's knees after writing more than ~50GB. I suppose theres always the less convoluted DC P3600 without the dual controllers.
I should specify my use case is a workstation for Next Generation Sequencing analysis. Lots of reading and writing of big files simultaneously. I should also specify that I’m only moderately comfortable with command line, I’m a biologist first and foremost. Be gentle with me
Well after doing some more reading, (after ordering it *facepalm*) apparently it’s mostly thanks to the fact that its actually two pools of NAND, with two controllers running in RAID0 to achieve the full capacity and performance in a single physical drive. Well apparently this RAID0 configuration requires Intel RST enterprise driver to setup, and according to Intel documentation requires (maybe?) a xeon processor. Fantastic, I don’t have a xeon processor, but rather an AMD R7 2700 and I’d really like to set it up as my main bootable drive for my linux based workstation.
My system is a B450 based Ryzen 2700 system running Ubuntu 18.04LTS. I plan to run the drive in the main x16 slot, straight off the CPU so physical link isn’t a problem. (Shoved the single slot gpu down to a PCIe 2.0 x4 slot) Intel documentation includes instructions for how to compile the linux kernel with the Intel NVME drivers included, is that the correct route? Or would I still need the RSTe software? Or should I look into AMDs raid software? Or simply follow the steps for softraid during installation of Ubuntu?
Anyone familiar with this drive? Or how to properly set it up as a boot drive in RAID0? Is this even possible
Worst case scenario I use it as a data drive rather than my boot drive. Though the goal was to have a single, very fast, larger capacity drive rather than my current collection of random SSDs. Or I guess I could resell it and get a cheapo Sabrent Rocket M.2 PCIe 2TB drive, instead, which is way less complicated but being a consumer TLC drive with minimal DRAM it will be brought to it's knees after writing more than ~50GB. I suppose theres always the less convoluted DC P3600 without the dual controllers.
I should specify my use case is a workstation for Next Generation Sequencing analysis. Lots of reading and writing of big files simultaneously. I should also specify that I’m only moderately comfortable with command line, I’m a biologist first and foremost. Be gentle with me