Hey all,
So I have a SSD750 in my workstation, and I have come to really appreciate the drive. At about the same time that I noticed that I need a new SSD for my L2ARC cache drive on my FreeNAS ZFS guest, I also happened to notice that 400GB Intel 750 Drives can now be had for about $320!
I am considering picking one up as my new L2ARC drive. I have confirmed that FreeNAS now supports NVMe, so this shouldn't be a problem, but I am wondering how this drive might behave if installed in my ESXi hypervisor and use PCI passthrough to present it to my FreeNAS guest.
Does anyone know if the Intel 750 plays nice with PCI Passthrough?
I have reason to be concerned because other companies (*cough* Nvidia *cough*) sabotage their consumer level devices PCI passthrough support so they don't compete with their professional products, and Intel is in the same position in this market with the 750 (consumer) model and their p3500/p3600/p3700/whatever which are very similar, but targeted towards the enterprise market.
I'd appreciate any thoughts!
--Matt
So I have a SSD750 in my workstation, and I have come to really appreciate the drive. At about the same time that I noticed that I need a new SSD for my L2ARC cache drive on my FreeNAS ZFS guest, I also happened to notice that 400GB Intel 750 Drives can now be had for about $320!
I am considering picking one up as my new L2ARC drive. I have confirmed that FreeNAS now supports NVMe, so this shouldn't be a problem, but I am wondering how this drive might behave if installed in my ESXi hypervisor and use PCI passthrough to present it to my FreeNAS guest.
Does anyone know if the Intel 750 plays nice with PCI Passthrough?
I have reason to be concerned because other companies (*cough* Nvidia *cough*) sabotage their consumer level devices PCI passthrough support so they don't compete with their professional products, and Intel is in the same position in this market with the 750 (consumer) model and their p3500/p3600/p3700/whatever which are very similar, but targeted towards the enterprise market.
I'd appreciate any thoughts!
--Matt