Help with adding nvme to server. (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Historical-Eggplant2@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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My work is getting rid of some very nice 8tb nvme u.2 drives. replacing them with much bigger ones and they're letting us (the IT team) spit the drives between us. I have a dell740 XD ssf at home (also a previous work donation) but it only has sata/sas backplane. It came with only 2 drives since it used shared storage. I want to know if it is possible to have a mix of sata/nvme drives in this server if I replace the backplane.

My other question, I think nvme drives do not use RAID controller, what is the best way to present the drives to VMs/esxi?

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[-] sasnakop@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I think the r740s have a addin called a boss card that you can use. If I remember correctly, you can boot from it which is a big advantage over after market.

I need to find a new job where they let us take home the old hardware :)

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