To cut a long story short, it's looking like Supermicro are no longer willing to supply peons like me with anything so advanced as the H13SAE-MF, despite having an order in for nearly a year, so I'm being forced to re-evaluate my choice of motherboard for the next five seven years of the wug primary server.
I had an eye on the H13SAE-MF precisely because it'd let me use my healthy stash of Micron 7450 M.2 22110's as boot+scratch drives as there didn't seem to be anything else on the market that would let me use them at the time. But now it looks like I might be able to buy something that's 2xM.2 2280 at best.
The Micron 7450s are seemingly now as rare as rocking horse shit and essentially unobtanium here in the UK even if you're wishing to part with your first-born and a loved-one's favourite kidney. So, what are StHers experiences of other enterprise-esque M.2 drives that might still be available for purchase by mere mortals?
Or are people just generally getting on with using consumer M.2's for boot/scratch purposes? And if so are there any pitfalls I might need to be aware of?
I've been a fan of Micron for a long time, mainly for their excellent reliability, firmware support, and linux support; even if they weren't always the fastest chimps off the blocks (but as far as I'm concerned I've been happy with 500+ random IOPS for boot drives for the last 15 years). But that goodwill also appears to be a window that's rapidly closing. And similarly I think Supermicro are rapidly falling in to my "never again" bucket, but similarly I think that's largely their intention, because why deal with me when they can deal with someone who can afford to pay an order of magnitude more for the same chips?
I'd rather buy retail if possible, since grubbing through a hopeful firmware dump from some OEMs bitbucket and/or having to run a bunch of esoteric to commands to get an unsupported drive maybe kinda hopefully working isn't exactly my cuppa, but I'm willing to entertain any option at this point (if for no other reason it might be helpful to others reading this thread). And of course I'm most awfully aware of the fact I never really considered M.2 to be anywhere close to an enterprise format in the first place (no hot-swap? WTF?!) but we are where we are. I just want something reliable and low-power enough to boot and run an occasional heavy sequential read workload without having to change my entire hardware stack, or having to deal with stupid firmware quirks.
Apologies for using the horrible term "AIpocalypse" but it was either that or a TikTok video with a voluntary mandatory likesubscribe to a poorly-written folk song. I'll leave that one dangling as a vague threat.
I had an eye on the H13SAE-MF precisely because it'd let me use my healthy stash of Micron 7450 M.2 22110's as boot+scratch drives as there didn't seem to be anything else on the market that would let me use them at the time. But now it looks like I might be able to buy something that's 2xM.2 2280 at best.
The Micron 7450s are seemingly now as rare as rocking horse shit and essentially unobtanium here in the UK even if you're wishing to part with your first-born and a loved-one's favourite kidney. So, what are StHers experiences of other enterprise-esque M.2 drives that might still be available for purchase by mere mortals?
Or are people just generally getting on with using consumer M.2's for boot/scratch purposes? And if so are there any pitfalls I might need to be aware of?
I've been a fan of Micron for a long time, mainly for their excellent reliability, firmware support, and linux support; even if they weren't always the fastest chimps off the blocks (but as far as I'm concerned I've been happy with 500+ random IOPS for boot drives for the last 15 years). But that goodwill also appears to be a window that's rapidly closing. And similarly I think Supermicro are rapidly falling in to my "never again" bucket, but similarly I think that's largely their intention, because why deal with me when they can deal with someone who can afford to pay an order of magnitude more for the same chips?
I'd rather buy retail if possible, since grubbing through a hopeful firmware dump from some OEMs bitbucket and/or having to run a bunch of esoteric to commands to get an unsupported drive maybe kinda hopefully working isn't exactly my cuppa, but I'm willing to entertain any option at this point (if for no other reason it might be helpful to others reading this thread). And of course I'm most awfully aware of the fact I never really considered M.2 to be anywhere close to an enterprise format in the first place (no hot-swap? WTF?!) but we are where we are. I just want something reliable and low-power enough to boot and run an occasional heavy sequential read workload without having to change my entire hardware stack, or having to deal with stupid firmware quirks.
Apologies for using the horrible term "AIpocalypse" but it was either that or a TikTok video with a voluntary mandatory likesubscribe to a poorly-written folk song. I'll leave that one dangling as a vague threat.
