I can’t say for sure- but, there is a good chance I might have a problem.
The main picture attached to this post, is a pair of dual bifurcation cards, each with a pair of Samsung PM963 1T enterprise NVMes.
It is going into my r730XD. Which… is getting pretty full. This will fill up the last empty PCIe slots.
But, knock on wood, My r730XD supports bifurcation! LOTS of Bifurcation.
As a result, it now has more HDDs, and NVMes then I can count.
What’s the problem you ask? Well. That is just one of the many servers I have laying around here, all completely filled with NVMe and SATA SSDs…
Figured I would share. Seeing a bunch of SSDs is always a pretty sight.
And- as of two hours ago, my particular lemmy instance was migrated to these new NVMes completely transparently too.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| NVMe | Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage |
| PCIe | Peripheral Component Interconnect Express |
| SATA | Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 3 acronyms.
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I dont see any issues!
/me hides his 16 4tb 12g SAS drives…
I think I’m at 7x 18tb drives. I’m slowly replacing all the smaller 8tb disks in my server. Only 5 more to go. After that it’s a new server with more bays and/or a jbod shelf.
If that’s a problem then I don’t want to be solved.
Its only a problem when you get the electric bill! (Or the wife finds your ebay receipts)
I doubt these use much power compared to their spinning rust anticedents.
Was curious how many watts this machine pulls? Also curious if you had ever filled it will spinning disks - would flash be less power hungry?
I dream of this kind of storage. I just added a second m.2 with a couple of TB on it and the space is lovely but I can already see I’ll fill it sooner than I’d like.
I will say, it’s nice not having to nickel and dime my storage.
But, the way I have things configured, redundancy takes up a huge chunk of the overall storage.
I have around 10x 1T NVMe and SATA SSDs in a ceph cluster. 60% storage overhead there.
Four of those 8T disks are in a ZFS Striped Mirror / Raid 10. 50% storage overhead.
The 4x 970 evo / evo plus drives are also in a striped mirror ZFS pool. 50% overhead.
But, still PLENTY of usable storage, and- highly available at that!
The two ZFS pools are only 4 devices. One pool is spinning rust, the other is all NVMe.
I don’t use raid 5 for large disks, and instead go for raid6/z2. Given z2 and striped mirrors both have 50% overhead with only 4 disks- striped mirrors has the advantage of being much faster, double the IOPs, and faster rebuilds. For these particular pools, performance was more important than overall disk space.
However, before all of these disks were moved from TrueNAS to Unraid- there was a 8x8T Z2 pool, which worked exceptionally well.
Is your problem that you are bragging about your drives?
I’m out of room to add more drives!
Every one of my servers is basically completely full on disks. I need more servers.
