I am using in my 730xd the Dell Ultra-Speed Drive Quad NVMe M.2 PCIe x16 Card With Samsung 980 Pro NVME… don’t forget to enable PCI bifurcation it works beautifully
I’ve been trying the exact same setup but I’ve never been able to get all 4 drives recognised by the server. I have the card in slot 6 with bifurcation set to 4x4x4x4. Only two drives ever get recognised with this configuration for me. Any secrets ?
Is this video still in the works? I know a lot of us are hanging on the edge of our seat awaiting it as we would love to boot our sustems to these faster devices.@@cloudninjas
Hello, I’m at a loss. I installed the NVME with the PCI card, bifercated the slot and booted the (OS server 2022) and installed onto the nvme, but now the windows boot manager fails to boot! What do I do??
Thank you for this detailed video! Once the U.2 expansion card installed, how many U.2 disks can you connect: 4? And in which of the 26 slots can we connect them?
Unfortunately did not work for me on the PCIe. I got the Supermicro expansion card and two 512 mb ex900+ nvme. I have TrueNAS installed and wanted these to be the mirrored boot instead of my rear bay ssd. I enabled slot bifercation and could see the memory in the bios - not idrac though. They weren’t recognized to the boot TrueNAS with. I could see one of the ssd drives in my current TrueNAS. The main problem though, was my fan speed was at 100% the entire time it was in. Couldn’t change it in the fan settings in idrac either.
Good Morning, I have a question about this video, Im looking to do the pcie card to 4x u.2 solution but I'm confused about something. I noticed the pcie card is pcie 16x, however the riser you put it in only has pcie 8x slots (though physically a 16x slot). can the pcie card work in 8x? I want to go with this solution however I noticed that the r730 has limited pcie16 slots available. please help
Good catch. I noticed this too - in the video he installs the pcie card into a slot in the first riser bay, which as you say are all x8, and the only x16 slots are 4 and 6. Even the Dell documentation doesnt indicate which slots this must be installed into, but after reading the docs and forum threads and my own experimentation (i watched this video and installed it exactly as shown and none of the attached u.2 drives are discovered..), i think i now realize that this card has to go in slot 4 or 6..
Good night. Great videos. I have a DELL R720 with NVMe installed on a PCI card. However, I have to do a USB drive to trick to boot to the drives. When I look into the BIOS there is no option for Bifucation. Anyway I can see and use the drives?
I've just bought a 370xd and really want Proxmox and VM's running off Dual M.2 drives running in RAID1. Is there a way to do this now? My system has 24 sas drives and 2 rear SSD's but they are only 400GB. Im looking at using the RAID controller in IT mode and passing through the controller to Proxmox. Unsure what to do with the 400GB SSD's
I am using in my 730xd the Dell Ultra-Speed Drive Quad NVMe M.2 PCIe x16 Card
With Samsung 980 Pro NVME… don’t forget to enable PCI bifurcation
it works beautifully
Appreciate the added info!
I’ve been trying the exact same setup but I’ve never been able to get all 4 drives recognised by the server. I have the card in slot 6 with bifurcation set to 4x4x4x4.
Only two drives ever get recognised with this configuration for me.
Any secrets ?
Dunno, I have 3 Samsung SSD.
Can you boot from these drives?
If I were to install the M.2 PCI card, would I be able to install VMware 7 on either (or both - as a RAID) of these cards and boot directly from them?
Great video. Is it possible to configure RAID1 on these 2 NVMe SSDs as well. Since a single disk for OS would be a single point of failure.
Yes but there is a whole lot that goes into it. Hoping to put together a video soon to show how to do this.
Is this video still in the works? I know a lot of us are hanging on the edge of our seat awaiting it as we would love to boot our sustems to these faster devices.@@cloudninjas
Hello, I’m at a loss. I installed the NVME with the PCI card, bifercated the slot and booted the (OS server 2022) and installed onto the nvme, but now the windows boot manager fails to boot! What do I do??
Thank you for this detailed video! Once the U.2 expansion card installed, how many U.2 disks can you connect: 4? And in which of the 26 slots can we connect them?
Yes 4 U.2 disk can be connected in slots 20 thru 23
Is there a M.2 Adapter with 4 or more drives I can use that will work or can I use 2x adapters?
Unfortunately did not work for me on the PCIe. I got the Supermicro expansion card and two 512 mb ex900+ nvme. I have TrueNAS installed and wanted these to be the mirrored boot instead of my rear bay ssd.
I enabled slot bifercation and could see the memory in the bios - not idrac though.
They weren’t recognized to the boot TrueNAS with. I could see one of the ssd drives in my current TrueNAS.
The main problem though, was my fan speed was at 100% the entire time it was in. Couldn’t change it in the fan settings in idrac either.
Brilliant!!
Appreciate the positive feedback Tomasz.
Good Morning,
I have a question about this video, Im looking to do the pcie card to 4x u.2 solution but I'm confused about something.
I noticed the pcie card is pcie 16x, however the riser you put it in only has pcie 8x slots (though physically a 16x slot). can the pcie card work in 8x?
I want to go with this solution however I noticed that the r730 has limited pcie16 slots available. please help
Good catch. I noticed this too - in the video he installs the pcie card into a slot in the first riser bay, which as you say are all x8, and the only x16 slots are 4 and 6.
Even the Dell documentation doesnt indicate which slots this must be installed into, but after reading the docs and forum threads and my own experimentation (i watched this video and installed it exactly as shown and none of the attached u.2 drives are discovered..), i think i now realize that this card has to go in slot 4 or 6..
Good night. Great videos. I have a DELL R720 with NVMe installed on a PCI card. However, I have to do a USB drive to trick to boot to the drives. When I look into the BIOS there is no option for Bifucation. Anyway I can see and use the drives?
You have to upgrade to the latest buos firmware
Does the U.2 drives require Dell firmware too?
I've just bought a 370xd and really want Proxmox and VM's running off Dual M.2 drives running in RAID1.
Is there a way to do this now?
My system has 24 sas drives and 2 rear SSD's but they are only 400GB.
Im looking at using the RAID controller in IT mode and passing through the controller to Proxmox.
Unsure what to do with the 400GB SSD's
I think you can’t use m.2 or u.2 on raid
Share link for this pcie 4.0 for Dell poweredge r650
What is the U.2 kit part number?
dont get the point why bifurcating to 4x4x4x4 when you only install two NVMEs in the slot? Wouldnt 8x8 speed this up a lot?
ok its only pcie 3.0 .. my fault 4x is like 4gb/s and enough for all pcie3 nvmes
Cannot detect, how to detect the nvme m2 pcie?
What card and m.2 are you using?
Nvme is really fast
Yes yes it is!
@@cloudninjas raid 0 scsi hdds is better
Lol