Do you have any trouble with cooling or anything with them? Got like a billion unused PCIe lanes in my Dell R730 and can think of a few things that might benefit from a big NVMe ZFS pool.
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Dual Slot Bifurcation Card Those are the ones I just picked up.
If you have a x16 slot, and can fit a full-height card, and use 4x4x4x4 bifurcation, the ASUS Hyper M.2 is really good.
Sweet!
I’ve got a gen3 hyper M.2 but I was looking for something for the 8x slots in one of my servers without needing full height cards.
That’s the exact use case I got these for
Do you have any trouble with cooling or anything with them? Got like a billion unused PCIe lanes in my Dell R730 and can think of a few things that might benefit from a big NVMe ZFS pool.
Generally, no.
I run a custom fan control script which keeps the fans around 30% minimum, but increases if needed.
Below 30% some things were getting toasty