Supermicro AOC-SLG3-2M2 Dual M2 card

[Rand__]

Z Turbo Drive | HP® Official Site

Local thread:
Cheap NVMe performance from HP - 9,000MB/s for $900 or so?

 

[nk215]

But that card requires a PLX chip on the motherboard. I am looking for one w/o the PLX chip on the MB (not sure if there is such a thing)

 

[Rand__]

Even the Dell one referenced in the thread? Ok, sorry then, thought that one at least would do without.

 

[AndyH]

I've just added this to another thread about this card, but for the sake of completeness I'll post it here too:

I've got one plugged into a HP DL380 G7 running FreeNAS. I've only tried it with a single SSD, but only slot 1 works. If the SSD is plugged into slot 2 neither the BIOS or OS recognise it.

Not had time to do any performance testing with it yet, but I plan on using it as L2ARC.

 

[MrCalvin]

It seems a guy got both slot working on a Supermicro SYS-5028D-TN4T board using this BIOS setting: PCIe bifurcation from x16 to x4x4x4x4

Link to thread on Disqus

Myself have a SM X11SSM-F board and I don't have that option in BIOS, so I guess this is not for me.

 

[bitrot]

is there an PCIe 3x16 card with 4 M2?

Yes, ASUS Hyper M.2 X16.

 

[Rand__]

Will that run in non Asus boards?

 

[bitrot]

There is a thread about that card here.

Looks like it does work with non-Asus boards, even if not properly (yet?). ASUS themselves only list a few ASUS consumer boards as compatible.

 

[Rand__]

Ah thanks. Better than the hyperkit then but not really satisfactory

 

[davidm71]

So what I'm gathering is that on the second slot your system will not recognize the m.2 nvme drive? Reason I ask is because my 1st x4 lanes on my X99's pci-e#5 slot is shared with the onboard m.2 and if I put in a second nvme m.2 drive my bandwidth lane allocation is halved. However the last x4 lanes on that pci-e#5 slot are not shared with anything. Seems too good to be true for it to work. Bet its all or nothing.

 

[Tsuroerusu]

Would this card work with an M.2 SATA SSD?

 

[Evan]

Would this card work with an M.2 SATA SSD?

Not at all, only PCIe / NVMe based drives

 

[mmaenpaa]

It seems that X11SSM-F got support (if I understand this correctly) for this card with latest bios update, of course I have yet to confirm it

Product Name X11SSM-F Release Version 2.1a Release Date 03/07/2018

Enhancements
1. Updated CPU microcode to address ‘Spectre’ variant 2 (CVE 2017
5715) security issue.
2. Changed BIOS revision to 2.1a.
3. Added Ramaxel JEDEC Manufacturer ID to support Ramaxel
memory.
4. Added AOC-SLG3-2M2 1.01 into NVMe table for auto bifurcation

Markku

 

[StevenDTX]

Just wanted to report that this card works great in Slot 1 on an X10SRA-F. I currently have a Samsung 960 512GB and an HP EX920 1TB installed.

 

[bashywash]

I've sent multiple email requests to SM and never received a response. I basically wanted to know if the X11SSL-CF X11SSL-CF | Motherboards | Products - Super Micro Computer, Inc. Supported PCI Express Bifurcation (to x4x4) so I could use this card and run 2 NVME drives!

Anyone know?

 

[MrCalvin]

Can confirm AOC-SLG3-2M2 work great on a SM board X11SSM-F.
As long your NVMe devices are running PCIe x4, which all "real" NVMes do. My two 32GB Intel Optane didn't work, as they run x2.


Bios 2.2:
Advanced / Chipset Configuration / System Agent.... / PEG Port config /


Made some basic benchmark, even mdadm RAID1, and everything seem to be fine

 

[dminches]

I am trying to use this card in an ASUS Crosshair VII AMD motherboard. I can only get the system to recognize the top card m.2_1. I made changes to the bios but that hasn’t helped. Does anyone have any tips on how they got their card to work?

 

[ctweaver]

I am trying to use this card in an ASUS Crosshair VII AMD motherboard. I can only get the system to recognize the top card m.2_1. I made changes to the bios but that hasn’t helped. Does anyone have any tips on how they got their card to work?

It looks like your board does support PCI-e bifurcation: [Motherboard] Compatibility of PCIE bifurcation between Hyper M.2 series Cards and Add-On Graphic Cards | Official Support | ASUS USA

That being said, if you have a CPU with gpu onboard it only supports 1 nvme per slot. If you use a Ryzen CPU without onboard GPU you should be able to run 2 drives in the 2nd x16 slot.

 

[dminches]

It looks like your board does support PCI-e bifurcation: [Motherboard] Compatibility of PCIE bifurcation between Hyper M.2 series Cards and Add-On Graphic Cards | Official Support | ASUS USA

That being said, if you have a CPU with gpu onboard it only supports 1 nvme per slot. If you use a Ryzen CPU without onboard GPU you should be able to run 2 drives in the 2nd x16 slot.

Thanks for your reply. I can try booting without the video card and see if both cards are recognized. It could be tricky setting up a RAID0 array without a video card since I need to access the BIOS to do that. The other thing I noticed is that neither card is recognized if the card is in the 2nd slot with the video card installed in any slot.

Sounds like I have some testing to do.

 

[ctweaver]

Thanks for your reply. I can try booting without the video card and see if both cards are recognized. It could be tricky setting up a RAID0 array without a video card since I need to access the BIOS to do that. The other thing I noticed is that neither card is recognized if the card is in the 2nd slot with the video card installed in any slot.

Sounds like I have some testing to do.

I might not have made what I was saying clear. Which CPU are you running? The list on their site says that any 1st/2nd/3rd gen Ryzen without graphics should work. i.e. a Ryzen 5 2500X does not have graphics and should work with 2 NVME drives, while a Ryzen 5 2400G does and will only accept 1 NVME drive per slot.