PCI-E SSD cards

[Rob Rati]

I have some SATA ports free on an add-on controller card that I could use, but I didn't know about brackets for mounting a normal sata drive in a pci slot.  I ended up ordering:

http://www.microsatacables.com/m-2-x-2-to-sata-iii-dual-port-adapter-with-pci-e-bracket/

Which allows 2 m.2 cards that support SATA.  I also ordered 2 m.2 128G cards.

Rob

On Oct 19, 2015, at 6:11 PM, Quartz wrote:

>> I was looking at adding an ssd for a zil and/or l2arc to my zfs pool
>> but all my hard drive bays are full.  I have free pci-e slots, so I
>> started looking at using that instead of a physical drive.  Does
>> anyone have any experience with these ssd pci-e cards in FreeBSD?
> 
> Your bays are full, but are you using all the sata ports on your board? You can get simple brackets that let you mount a normal sata drive in a pci slot (no connection to the actual slot connector). If your slots are all spoken for, you could combine a bracket with a generic sata card in another slot (assuming you have multiple slots free).
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