skunkworker Posted May 28, 2018 Share Posted May 28, 2018 (edited) I've been looking into improving my cache disk, right now I have a 500gb mx300 ssd over SATA3 but I am wanting to improve the read/write performance because I am running a lot of docker containers off of it and it seems to be a bottleneck at times with large amounts of dating coming and going. Would it be possible to use the Startech NVMe PCIe3 x4 adapter with an NVMe based ssd as a cache disk? Or should I go for something with higher random IOPS? Thanks, Below are the two products I'm looking at. https://smile.amazon.com/StarTech-com-PEX4M2E1-M-2-Adapter-Profile/dp/B01FU9JS94?sa-no-redirect=1&th=1 https://smile.amazon.com/Samsung-970-EVO-500GB-MZ-V7E500BW/dp/B07BN4NJ2J/ref=pd_lpo_vtph_147_bs_tr_t_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=TT8EHBTFF5N499K8FARJ P.S. I've also looked into the Intel Optane 900P 280gb x4 as a possible cache device, because it's random reads/writes are 8x than normal SSDs. https://smile.amazon.com/Intel-Optane-900P-280GB-XPoint/dp/B0772XB3MY?sa-no-redirect=1 Edited May 28, 2018 by skunkworker Quote Link to comment
Rich Minear Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 I'm wondering if you every received an answer for this? I'm looking at adding a cache drive to my setup also, and I'm out of SSD ports. That controller and drive are what I found. Are you using them? Quote Link to comment
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