Hi everyone,

 

I'd like to add to my DL320e Gen8 v2 a graphic card.

 

I've 2 NVMe M.2 drives on a PCIe adapter and 4 2'5 SSD in the bay linked to the other PCIe slot through my HPE P222 Card. So I'm out of PCIe port.

 

To do so, I'll first replace my HPE P222 Raid card (HBA) with a HPE H240 to connect my first 4 drives in the cage through Mini-SAS.

 

Now, I need to connect my two M.2 NVMe drives, but after searching for a while, I can't find the specific card that could solve my problem.

 

Does anyone has a link to the product I'm looking for, else another to solve my problem?

 

Thank you!

 

PS: I can't use the motherboard's Mini-SAS connector as it'ld cut bay's speed to 3Gb/s instead of 6Gb/s due to having 4 drives instead of 2.

Edited February 3, 20224 yr by gyto6
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So, after more investigation I realized many things.

 

My target there was to free a PCIE slot and still getting my 2 NVMe SSDs working this fast as for my SATA SSDs.

 

But, the H240 has no support for NVMe. Only SATA/SAS, so my NVMe wouldn't run or in SATA mode at least.

 

Looking for the 4xM.2 version of my PEX8M2E2, which has native support for NVMe, I imagined using a M.2 to Mini-SAS adapter to connect my bay to this card.

But these cards only accept NVMe protocol, and my 4 SATA SSD wouldn't run then.

 

The only thing that could run are "Tri-Mode" card (SATA/SAS/NVMe) and the price is not the same. Look for HBA 9400-16i Tri-Mode Storage Adapter.

 

I can't expect to find it on Ebay for cheap.

 

So i'll considerate to connect back my SATA SSDs to the motherboard and get cut to 3Gb/S instead of 6.

 

PS: I didn't mention SAS connectors as there would be a lot to talk about too, but it's a mess.