NVMe: 2.5" SFF drives working in a normal desktop

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ehorn said:
From what I can find, the R version replaced the non R. Also, The card can be direct shipped from supermicro for < 90 bucks here...

http://www.compsource.com/pn/AOCSLG32E4R/Supermicro-428/?src=F

It's laughable that one cannot readily find cables though...

Just sent Amphenol and email inquiry about availability.
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Talked to their sales guy about buying just a few about 6-8 months ago. He told me for 1 or 2 it was too small of an amount for him to fulfill. But this was a while ago. Wonder if mouser might sell them
 
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Chuntzu - So if we checkout on their site for that item they won't full-fill it is what you're saying?

I have had that in my cart now waiting... darn!
 
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Performance wise, this is a pretty interesting setup. Seems like some drives are doing well and some are struggling a bit. Hope I can figure out the cause tomorrow.

Oh, and I found out that installing an Intel NVMe drive on a system after removing a Micron drive leads to the Intel drive not being recognized. Scary when you go through a P3700 800GB, a P3700 400GB, a P3600 400GB and a fresh from the ESD bag 750 and they all do not work!

Very fun but more research required.
 
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cesmith9999 said:
Chuntzu, want to come to Redmond?...

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Sure would! I was drooling while watching the ignite video's on channel 9 when they made mention of the 4 or 5 node cluster each with 4 nvme drive 20 or so 4tb drives.

PS check you PMs
 
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Yes, I live in Redmond. 3 miles from main campus of Microsoft.

I am a MS geek. but you all have probably figured that out my now.

I have to edit (read: not say) a lot of things that I say on this forum because I am privy to MS and other 3rd party technology that is not out yet. Patrick, I know that you understand this feeling of not being able to say everything.

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2 SuperMicro cards on the way.... woohooo

Now to get some cables... and wait for July for EBAY Bucks for NVME :D drive(s).
 
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Amphenol does not sell directly to end users, and most of their vendors only deal in bulk likewise.
 
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OK guys - breaking update - I think most folks will want the $249 version. More coming soon.
 
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Updated the first post. The more expensive version uses a PLX chip which helps with bifurcation down to x4. Some platforms (many of the ones tested) have this already. The other thing is that with only 1 cable could only connect 1 drive so did not see the issue with the bifurcation on the lower cost card (R).

Hopefully will have some more info to share later today.
 
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Finally my plan to run roughly 4x of these cards with 8NVMe drives will come into play with VSAN. I want to use these with my AFA (32x 1TB SSD array)

Now I just need more PCIe lanes!!!
 
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