PCIe SSD in qnap x71?

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mikeylam
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Re: PCIe SSD in qnap x71?

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colindbrookes wrote:Pleased to advise that the x4 pcie slot accepts a dual M.2 card with M.2 SSd's up to 2TB.
I have one installed and working with no problems in TVS-871 used as cache drive.
The only problem I had was Ghost drives showing in storage manager - this was corrected by removing my existing cache drives from slots 1 and 2, and placing my RAID 5 array from slots 3 to 8 to slots 1 to 6.
No drivers were required, the PCIe to m.2 adaptor works OOTB.
My two OCZ 500GB SSD,s were replaced in slots 7&8 and configured as a fast raid 1 volume.
I have also installed a single slot workstation GPU in the PCIe 3 x8 slot.
This provides UHD output to 2 Display Port 1.2 on which I am running two 3840x2160 UHD monitors @60HZ.
I have been unable to find a compatible card (MUST BE PCIE 3 x 8 - NOT x16) with HDMI v2.0 output, so had to stick to DP.
I will shortly be testing Virtualization station pass-through to this card with windows.
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Hi I am interested in doing the same for my 871T and even possibly my 1282 (I want to see if I can jam 2 pcie GPUs into the 1282).

May I ask which GPU you bought that is PCIe x 8 physical and single slot?
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Re: PCIe SSD in qnap x71?

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Not sure this is the place to raise this question, so feel free to redirect me.

I have been looking at purchasing a pcie card that could provide dual M.2 SSD's in my TS-563 in the pcie x4 slot. Given the TS-563 only has a single pcie x4 slot I'd like to have 2 x 250Gb M.2 SSD drives on a single card so I could load the QTS on the SSD's in a RAID 1 config.

I have looked at a number of pcie x4 dual M.2 cards, both from eBay and manufacturers such as StarTech and Bplus but am not sure which card would work in the TS-563. Also, it appears I am only likely to find dual pcie to M.2 sata cards and not dual pcie to pcie M.2 as it appears these cards require pcie x8 or higher.

Would be interested in the thinking of those of you in the forum knowledgeable on this topic.
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Re: PCIe SSD in qnap x71?

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look at the QM2 cards that Qnap is in the process of coming out with. in addition to the M.2 capability ... they also have a combo which includes a 10G port
Production :
TVS-673 4.3.4 0387
4 X 3TB WD RED : 1 X 4TB HGST DESKSTAR R5
32GB
LAN-10G1SR-D, FiberHal for Cisco SFP-10G-SR
NETGEAR ProSAFE SS3300-28X

Backup :
TS-469L 4.3.4 0387
4 X 3TB WD RED R5
3GB
Located detached garage .. cheap offsite solution ...

2nd TS-469L awaiting drives and reassignment for front-line duty .......
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Re: PCIe SSD in qnap x71?

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Thanks for the info. Ended up purchasing the http://shop.qnap.com/index.php?route=pr ... uct_id=214 So will see how it goes with a couple of Samsung 960 M.2 pcie cards.
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