Dear Truenas users,
Today I received my Linkreal adapter from Aliexpress.. link to Ali
Normally I hate Ali for no reason but since my supermicro x12sth-ln4f doesn't support bifurcation I had to look for something with a PLX8747 chip for example.
Installation was easy and TrueNAS instantly saw all 4 nvme drives I had placed in it.
I'm as excited as possible, quickly creating 2 pools with an smb share to test.
What I've done:
Adapter filled with 4 samsung nvme 980 PRO 1tb.
Card installed in a pcie 4.0 x16 slot.
Created 2 mirrored pools and connected via SMB in windows.
Then copied a test file of 10gb and quite a few other large files back and forth so that the ARC would fill properly.
In Windows I get to see that the speed with which the file is transferred from one pool to another is actually faster than my expectation and what the card should be able to do !!
The card is a PCIE 3.0x8
i expected that the 4 nvme cards would be split into 2x2x2x2 which would mean a maximum speed of 1970 MB/s.
In Windows this could be a maximum of 1.97 GB/s.
To my surprise, the speed is 2.28 GB/s!
Today I received my Linkreal adapter from Aliexpress.. link to Ali
Normally I hate Ali for no reason but since my supermicro x12sth-ln4f doesn't support bifurcation I had to look for something with a PLX8747 chip for example.
Installation was easy and TrueNAS instantly saw all 4 nvme drives I had placed in it.
I'm as excited as possible, quickly creating 2 pools with an smb share to test.
What I've done:
Adapter filled with 4 samsung nvme 980 PRO 1tb.
Card installed in a pcie 4.0 x16 slot.
Created 2 mirrored pools and connected via SMB in windows.
Then copied a test file of 10gb and quite a few other large files back and forth so that the ARC would fill properly.
In Windows I get to see that the speed with which the file is transferred from one pool to another is actually faster than my expectation and what the card should be able to do !!
The card is a PCIE 3.0x8
i expected that the 4 nvme cards would be split into 2x2x2x2 which would mean a maximum speed of 1970 MB/s.
In Windows this could be a maximum of 1.97 GB/s.
To my surprise, the speed is 2.28 GB/s!