PCI-E SSD cards

Quartz quartz at sneakertech.com
Mon Oct 19 22:11:31 UTC 2015


> I was looking at adding an ssd for a zil and/or l2arc to my zfs pool
> but all my hard drive bays are full.  I have free pci-e slots, so I
> started looking at using that instead of a physical drive.  Does
> anyone have any experience with these ssd pci-e cards in FreeBSD?

Your bays are full, but are you using all the sata ports on your board? 
You can get simple brackets that let you mount a normal sata drive in a 
pci slot (no connection to the actual slot connector). If your slots are 
all spoken for, you could combine a bracket with a generic sata card in 
another slot (assuming you have multiple slots free).


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