https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.2 The latest standard for connecting SSDs is M.2. It's small and doesn't need much power which among other things makes it good for systems with plenty of spare PCIe slots but no spare SATA connectors or SATA power connectors. http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/ssd-540s-series-m2... spec.html The Intel 540 series of SSDs comes in a M.2 variant that has B and M notches. Does anyone know where I can get a PCIe card that takes at least 1 (and preferrably 2) B+M M.2 cards and works with Linux? I want to install 2 of the Intel 540 M.2 SSDs in one system. I can use 2*PCIe slots if necessary but would prefer to use only 1. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/
Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.2
The latest standard for connecting SSDs is M.2. It's small and doesn't need much power which among other things makes it good for systems with plenty of spare PCIe slots but no spare SATA connectors or SATA power connectors.
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/solid-state-drives/ssd-540s-series-m2... spec.html
The Intel 540 series of SSDs comes in a M.2 variant that has B and M notches.
Does anyone know where I can get a PCIe card that takes at least 1 (and preferrably 2) B+M M.2 cards and works with Linux?
Russel: I've got one of these: https://teksyndicate.com/videos/plextor-m6e-pci-express-ssd-review only seems to take one M2 card but seems to have drivers for a variety of Linux distro's "..... Linux series, Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu"; Scorpion Tec in South Melbourne used to carry them regards Rohan McLeod
On 22/07/2016 5:00 PM, Rohan McLeod via luv-main wrote:
Russel: I've got one of these: https://teksyndicate.com/videos/plextor-m6e-pci-express-ssd-review only seems to take one M2 card but seems to have drivers for a variety of Linux distro's "..... Linux series, Fedora, SUSE, Ubuntu"; Scorpion Tec in South Melbourne used to carry them
I bet there should be better options today, that video review was done over two years ago (posted March '14, I think). Still, it looks good. I'm wondering how long before we can have a matchbox storage device with a bunch of very fast micro SD cards of some type, very fast and very high storage.... in a tiny package ;-) A.
Russell Coker via luv-main <luv-main@luv.asn.au> writes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.2
Does anyone know where I can get a PCIe card that takes at least 1 (and preferrably 2) B+M M.2 cards and works with Linux?
For a desktop you probably don't care, but note that M.2 comes in different LENGTHS. e.g. macbooks take an 8cm unit, whereas my netbook can only take a 4cm unit. Hardly anybody makes 4cm units. :-/ Also IIRC it's important to have both the adapter and the drive speak NVMe, or both speak the other one (SATA?), otherwise it won't work at all.
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