Hey all! I'm in need of a drive guru to help me.
So I've got an ASUS RS500A-E11-RS12U server without the SAS controller. Only Sata & NVME. Currently it is half populated with u.2 drives and I wanted to use the m.2 nvme I had laying around to populate the rest.
So far I bought a generic amazon adapter which didn't work. My bad, it says in the description that it's for SAS and I don't have a SAS controller.
After that I got 2 of the ICYDOCK MB705M2P-B which worked! Hurray.
I decided to try another one because I was curious and the icydock is really expensive where I am. I've bought the VANTEC MRK-NVM2U2-BK. Didn't found any mention of SAS, only "NO SATA". I tought "alright, this is not a SATA m.2 that I'm plugging in, it's a proper NVME". To my surprise, it didn't work.
At that point I needed a reality check. the ICYDOCK didn't mention anything about no SATA so I was wondering if it converted my nvme to sata. But no, it's connected as an nvme on PCI.
Now, am I correct to assume it needs a Sata connection to recognize the drive and then connect it to pci or am I just really missing something that should be obvious?
Thanks!
So I've got an ASUS RS500A-E11-RS12U server without the SAS controller. Only Sata & NVME. Currently it is half populated with u.2 drives and I wanted to use the m.2 nvme I had laying around to populate the rest.
So far I bought a generic amazon adapter which didn't work. My bad, it says in the description that it's for SAS and I don't have a SAS controller.
After that I got 2 of the ICYDOCK MB705M2P-B which worked! Hurray.
I decided to try another one because I was curious and the icydock is really expensive where I am. I've bought the VANTEC MRK-NVM2U2-BK. Didn't found any mention of SAS, only "NO SATA". I tought "alright, this is not a SATA m.2 that I'm plugging in, it's a proper NVME". To my surprise, it didn't work.
At that point I needed a reality check. the ICYDOCK didn't mention anything about no SATA so I was wondering if it converted my nvme to sata. But no, it's connected as an nvme on PCI.
Code:
116: PCI 00.0: 10600 Disk
[Created at block.245]
SysFS ID: /class/block/nvme4n1
SysFS BusID: nvme4
SysFS Device Link: /devices/pci0000:40/0000:40:01.2/0000:41:00.0/nvme/nvme4
Hardware Class: disk
Model: "A Disk"
Vendor: pci 0x1cc1 "ADATA Technology Co., Ltd."
Device: pci 0x5236
SubVendor: pci 0x1dbe
SubDevice: pci 0x5236
Driver: "nvme"
Driver Modules: "nvme"
Device File: /dev/nvme4n1
[...]
Thanks!