*Samsung PM963 1.92TB NVME 250USD
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@TLN it is U2. You'll need a motherboard or AIC to provide the connection. The funtin cards are popular and the link below worked well for me.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LY9HRDB/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LY9HRDB/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Getting confused with this... is this a nvme drive? why are they listing this as pcie gen3? or is this just a regular sata drive?
@ElBerryKM13 NVME is really just a pcie connection direct to the drive so you'll see it listed this way often.
I am not sure about performance difference ,
but price wise PM963 at $275 vs P3605 $378 ( my price )
The P3605 that I purchased only had 0.6 TB written ( so "new" , it is not even burned in yet )
Not sure about this PM963 life left until I received the drive
Looks like they sold out and relisted a second batch at a higher price. Likely they're sitting on some quantity.
Whoa relist is here $299 MZQLW1T9HMJP-000AZ Samsung PM963 2.5" 1.92TB SSD PCIE GEN3 MZ-QLW1T90 | eBay
do they boot?
i find the most annoying thing in the world that you cannot connect an M.2 slot to U.2 drive. both are pcie, but they are some how not compatible. weird how standards evolve in such ad hoc ways
Not if you have 5 or 6 other 2TB say sata drives in each disk group.
5+1 seems to work well but let’s say you have 10 servers and 2 disk groups like this per server that’s 200TB or so of flash.... not cheap.
The newer motherboard would boot from it.
There is a long running thread ( couple years ago ) detailing various methods to connect U.2 drive to M.2 slot.
I have a newer MSI X99 board, it actually came with adapter M.2 to U.2 , brought a U2 cable from Intel to make it work.
Short answer is yes , long answers is Patrick written articles about the topics.
There is a buyer purchased 6 SSD in the first listing, Is that you?
You are looking for back-plane for your 6 new toys.
I bought intel M.2 to U.2 cable. It's like M.2->U.2 adapter and cable bonded together. I like minimal look and Intel logo over it - loos cool. And it's a bit cheaper then adapter + cable.