QUAD M.2 NVMe Ports to PCIe 3.0 x16 Interface (x8 Bandwidth) Bifurcation Riser Controller

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In the event of a power loss, crash, or freeze, this data will be lost and/or possibly result in corruption.

These NVMe SSDs are targeted for consumers (normal users, gamers, power users, and IT professionals) and are a great fit! Just remember these do not have PLP (power loss protection), which is a feature that isn’t normally found in consumer SSDs. Specifications If you’re like me and use a Synology NAS as an NFS or iSCSI datastore for your VMware environment, you want to optimize it as much as possible to reduce any hardware resource utilization. Version 1 went great, but you can see some things needed to be changed. I decided to go with a dedicated server, not virtualize TrueNAS, and go for a newer CPU with a higher Ghz speed. While the ML310e Gen8 v2 server is a cheap low entry server, it’s been a fantastic team member of my homelab. Typically HBAs (or RAID cards in IT mode) are used for storage systems to provide direct access to disks, so that that the host operating system can perform software RAID, or deploy a special filesystem like ZFS on the disks.

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Looking to add quad (4) NVMe SSDs to your system and don’t have the M.2 slots or a motherboard that supports bifurcation? The IOCREST IO-PEX40152 QUAD NVMe PCIe card, is the card for you! Open the /etc/network/interfaces file, and add the following line so that the Pi only get’s an IP once during boot: DISCLAIMER: If you attempt what I did in this post, you are doing it at your own risk. I won’t be held liable for any damages or issues. NVMe Storage Server – Use Cases If using a SLOG for ZIL, it is highly recommend to use an SSD that has PLP (power loss protection) as well as a mirrored set to avoid data loss and/or corruption in the event of a power loss, crash, or freeze. RAM Caching and Sync Writes I plan on running like this for a little while to continue to test the stability of the environment before making more changes and expanding the configuration and usage. Future Plans (and Configuration)

You would only want to do this if you had the need for fast storage where data loss would is acceptable (such as video editing, a VDI clone desktop pool, etc).

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Decommissioning the drives preemptively and early doesn’t mean you have to throw them away, this is just to secure the data on the ZFS pool. You can can continue to use these drives in other systems with non-critical data, and possibly use the drive well beyond it’s recommended lifetime. Compression and Deduplication In my case, I have all 4 NICs in my DS1813+ configured and connected to a switch. My ESXi hosts have 10Gb DAC connections to that switch, and can now utilize it at faster speeds. During intensive I/O loads, I’ve seen the full aggregated network throughput hit and sustain around 370MB/s.

At this point, only the 10Gb NIC is now being used so I went ahead and disconnected the 1Gb network cable. Sharing Setup and Configuration After spending forever trying to tweak and optimize, I found that NFS was best for the Synology NAS unit of mine. What’s this new NFS v4.1 thing?

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In this post I’ll be reviewing the IOCREST IO-PEX40152, providing information on how to buy, benchmarks, installation, configuration and more! I’ve also posted tons of pics for your viewing pleasure. I installed this card in an HPE DL360p Gen8 server to add NVME capabilities to create an NVMe based Storage Server.