(US-VA) FS: NVME Controller & Drives

[CaptainPoundSand]

Going in a different direction for my storage solution.. (these were in my SM chassis with 4x NVME slots built in - will be selling that shortly) - Will list these for weekend before heading to Ebay.

I'll sell entire lot for 1k and include the card to back-plane cables.

2x SuperMicro AOC-SLG3-2E4 - $110/ea Shipped - only short bracket.
-These are the the NVME controller cards that have PLX onboard (for those SM motherboards that do NOT have bifurcation) - Was running these on a X9DRH

4x HGST 1.92GB NVME - HUSMR7619BDP3Y1 W/SM NVME sled - $200/ea Shipped.
-Bought these with about 100 hours on them (Beginning of the year)- These were for an NFS/esxi share - but never materialized so power on times don't reflect actual writes to the drive -Already pulled so don't have exact specs but these are just fine.

I'm located in Ashburn, VA.

 

[fake-name]

I'll take the lot of you can get smart info. This will goad me into updating my DB server, finally.


Do the AOC-SLG3-2E4 cards work in non-SM motherboards?


Edit: https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...-working-in-a-normal-desktop.5864/#post-51057 Looks like they work with most things.

 

[Bjorn Smith]

NFS+esxi sucks big hairy donkey balls - I was using esxi+nfs for the longest time and upgraded ny nas several times with optane nvme, pure SSD pool etc and its just impossible to get NFS+ esxi to perform because of the way esxi asks for sync+flush on every write request. I switched to iscsi and now have 3.2GB/s writes.

So if esxi+nfs is the reason why you are going in a different direction, try iscsi instead you will love it.

How much will you sell two of these drives for shipped to Denmark?

 

[CaptainPoundSand]

I'll take the lot of you can get smart info. This will goad me into updating my DB server, finally.


Do the AOC-SLG3-2E4 cards work in non-SM motherboards?


Edit: https://forums.servethehome.com/ind...-working-in-a-normal-desktop.5864/#post-51057 Looks like they work with most things.

I have a lot buyer - if that falls through I'll get some smart info.

 

[CaptainPoundSand]

NFS+esxi sucks big hairy donkey balls - I was using esxi+nfs for the longest time and upgraded ny nas several times with optane nvme, pure SSD pool etc and its just impossible to get NFS+ esxi to perform because of the way esxi asks for sync+flush on every write request. I switched to iscsi and now have 3.2GB/s writes.

So if esxi+nfs is the reason why you are going in a different direction, try iscsi instead you will love it.

How much will you sell two of these drives for shipped to Denmark?

Actually NFS 4.1 (vs 3) got me better than ISCSI even on 40gbe direct connect. I Was able to hit 4GB/S + - issue was freenas doesn't like the dual port 40gbe (kept crashing NAS) - and didn't want to get a 40gbe switch. Plus WAF - loosing NAS = loosing all VM's. Looking/testing into VSAN - (I have 3node cluster) I found out on 6.7 you can carve out NVME namespace (Like partitioning disks) and have cache/capacity all on same physical PCIE NVME, but presenting as separate disks to esxi. = Insane performance.

Already have lot buyer - but I wouldn't expect more than $50 to ship - I'll put you as backup.

 

[fake-name]

I have a lot buyer - if that falls through I'll get some smart info.

Thanks, well, do keep me posted.

 

[Bjorn Smith]

Actually NFS 4.1 (vs 3)

But FreeNAS only supports NFS 4 right? Not 4.1

 

[Rdaneel]

Got the items, very helpful seller through the whole process.

 

[cookiesowns]

Have these all been sold?

 

[CaptainPoundSand]

Have these all been sold?

Yes - All Sold.