Interesting: 10-port SATA III 6Gbps PCIe controller & IBM 200GB DDR3 Storage DIMM

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StammesOpfer

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What is the IBM [Lenovo] eXFlash 200Gb DDR3 Storage DIMM used for? Is this a version of nonvolatile DIMM RAM or NVMe via DDR3 DIMM (for x280, x480, x880, X6, x3650, M4, x3850, x3950, X6). Sounds crazy strange and yet very interesting.
Basically NVMe via DDR3

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Pretty interesting idea. Looks like you need custom BIOS/UEFI for it to function.
 

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Ms != Ns :oops: @Patrick Err, wow, what can I say? That's what I get for posting while in foggy brain let's go to sleep state. It's interesting to see just how many companies look or sound similar just to (perhaps or by design haphazardly snooker) you into buying their product.
 

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It certainly looks like an interesting card but i wouldnt attach too many SSD's to it due to the limits of PCIE2 x2 as a connector I'd be more comfortable with x4 on a 10 port sata device at minimum(if i was planning for ssd's only x8) looking at the card it's an asm1062 sata controller(pcie 2x) which handles 2 ports naively attached to a pair of jmicron JMB575 port multipliers both of which can handle 5 cards each, assuming the ASM1062 is well supported under linux it might be an interesting HBA for a 2u 24bay server using those 4tb 2.5inch drives