I had been looking at the Supermicros while shopping what eventually because a "right now because I can use it regardless" Intel 750 card purchase, but 2.5 is obviously more appealing - but along the way I came across things like
M.2 PCI-e I/F to mini SAS SFF-8087 and M.2 SATA I/F t SATA III
with some doing 4x M.2 to SFF 8087... the first time I came across something like this I assumed it was just a SAS/SATA breakout, just on a PCB, but this explicitly specs PCIe M.2 cards. Anyone have any experience with these? Can they run to a SAS3 card? I'm assuming that at $20 (even at) volume/direct retail with spec'ing buck boost converters, there is no bridge logic in that price...
Also, if anyone has one of the Supermicros, are they board specific or can I use them in my X9 2011 and X10 1150 boards? Don't care if they are bootable - this is for media creation (Lightroom DB, photo/video/audio scratch files), archive or system backup volume(s) tiering, or VM hosting.
SATA3 is the new "ESX boot USB" I only care that my boot disk is uncorrupted (cap backed flushing) and TPM+HW AES encrypted.
M.2 PCI-e I/F to mini SAS SFF-8087 and M.2 SATA I/F t SATA III
with some doing 4x M.2 to SFF 8087... the first time I came across something like this I assumed it was just a SAS/SATA breakout, just on a PCB, but this explicitly specs PCIe M.2 cards. Anyone have any experience with these? Can they run to a SAS3 card? I'm assuming that at $20 (even at) volume/direct retail with spec'ing buck boost converters, there is no bridge logic in that price...
Also, if anyone has one of the Supermicros, are they board specific or can I use them in my X9 2011 and X10 1150 boards? Don't care if they are bootable - this is for media creation (Lightroom DB, photo/video/audio scratch files), archive or system backup volume(s) tiering, or VM hosting.
SATA3 is the new "ESX boot USB" I only care that my boot disk is uncorrupted (cap backed flushing) and TPM+HW AES encrypted.