Hello folks!
I've recently acquired two T9710 which are arriving soon so they can be a home lab VMWare Cluster.
I'm adding to each machine 8x SATA3 consumer level SSDs using SAS breakout cables. Those are capacity disks.
I also need to add 4x NVMe M.2 SSDs. However, the T7910 doesn't have M.2 slots so I need a PCIe x16 card to make this to work. Most of the cards I've seen requires PCIe bifurcation and as far as I know, the T7910 system board doesn't support it.
I've seeing some posts in this forum about some cards that has some sort of "switch" and doesn't require that the motherboard to support PCIe bifurcation but I've been struggling on finding one that for sure work and/or is available to purchase.
Can someone shed a light on a PCIe x16 card that can accommodate those 4x NVMe SSDs without requiring the bifurcation? Also, is there any performance impact on using those cards?
Thank you!
I've recently acquired two T9710 which are arriving soon so they can be a home lab VMWare Cluster.
I'm adding to each machine 8x SATA3 consumer level SSDs using SAS breakout cables. Those are capacity disks.
I also need to add 4x NVMe M.2 SSDs. However, the T7910 doesn't have M.2 slots so I need a PCIe x16 card to make this to work. Most of the cards I've seen requires PCIe bifurcation and as far as I know, the T7910 system board doesn't support it.
I've seeing some posts in this forum about some cards that has some sort of "switch" and doesn't require that the motherboard to support PCIe bifurcation but I've been struggling on finding one that for sure work and/or is available to purchase.
Can someone shed a light on a PCIe x16 card that can accommodate those 4x NVMe SSDs without requiring the bifurcation? Also, is there any performance impact on using those cards?
Thank you!
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