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Shoggy

Sven - Admin

Friday, July 8th 2016, 9:27pm

There is no difference. A dedicated M.2 port on the mainboard is also only a PCIe connector in a different form factor. Some mainboards also use only two PCIe lanes for these ports which means they are even slower than the adapter card.

shi0n

Newbie

Monday, August 8th 2016, 5:58pm

I need replacement thermal pad for my kryoM.2, But I can't find 1.8mm thickness thermal pads.
Can I substitute 2.0mm or 1.5mm thermal pads for 1.8mm thermal pads ?

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "shi0n" (Aug 8th 2016, 6:01pm)

InfoSeeker

Senior Member

Tuesday, August 9th 2016, 9:23pm

Oops, was behind

Bytales

Full Member

Thursday, August 11th 2016, 11:47am

Quoted from "sebastian"

Quoted from "Bytales"

Card 2 or 4 times, and wire it to the lanes 1-4, 5-8, 9-12, 13-16.
this is NOT possible.
You can´t wire 2 or more different devices to one PCIe slot.
Every PCIe slot has the capability to handle the handshakes from excatly one device.


Take a look here:

Seagate 8TB Nytro XP7200 NVMe SSD

Seagate has purposed this NVMe SSD to address "the hyperscale needs of today’s data centres seeking to easily grow with their data without losing the ability to quickly access and process it". The 8TB Nytro XP7200 NVMe SSD uses a single PCIe interface with 4x controllers on the card, accessing 4x 2TB Seagate XM1440 M.2 drives. It needs to be plugged into a PCIe x16 to be fully utilised.

Someone did it allready, 4 M.2 ssds on a single pci express Card.

sebastian

Administrator

Tuesday, August 16th 2016, 7:28am

Quoted from "Bytales"

Seagate 8TB Nytro XP7200 NVMe SSD
this is complete different. This pcb has NO PCIe NMVE slots. The flash is directly soldered with the board.

Hufeisen

Senior Member

Wednesday, August 17th 2016, 6:43pm

Quoted from "sebastian"

Quoted from "Bytales"

Seagate 8TB Nytro XP7200 NVMe SSD
this is complete different. This pcb has NO PCIe NMVE slots. The flash is directly soldered with the board.
you could use a pcie switch like one of these http://www.avagotech.com/products/pcie-s…/pcie-switches/
or a pcie nvme raid controller like http://highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series…0a-overview.htm

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sebastian

Administrator

Wednesday, August 17th 2016, 9:23pm

Quoted from "Hufeisen"

you could use a pcie switch like one of these http://www.avagotech.com/products/pcie-s…/pcie-switches/
or a pcie nvme raid controller like http://highpoint-tech.com/USA_new/series…0a-overview.htm
and than we have a product that is more expensive without any benefit for 99% of our customers.

Bytales

Full Member

Wednesday, March 1st 2017, 10:51am

Only because we allready discussed about it.
I ordered me a PCI Express 3.0 16x Card that can take 4 M.2 up to 22110 SSD connected each through PCI Express 3.0 4x to the Computer.

So yah, someone made such a Card. It is possible.
It would have been better if Aquacomputer had one with either passive or active watercooling.

However, i dont think they will bother designing one, sice you Need a PCI Express Switch, and the whole Card costs 450 USD.

Here it is, the Card !

GTXJackBauer

Full Member

Wednesday, March 1st 2017, 11:34am

Quoted from "Bytales"

Only because we allready discussed about it.
I ordered me a PCI Express 3.0 16x Card that can take 4 M.2 up to 22110 SSD connected each through PCI Express 3.0 4x to the Computer.

So yah, someone made such a Card. It is possible.
It would have been better if Aquacomputer had one with either passive or active watercooling.

However, i dont think they will bother designing one, sice you Need a PCI Express Switch, and the whole Card costs 450 USD.

Here it is, the Card !


If only that was at a way better price point, as you say it's $400 and was all black with RAID capabilities. Now that would be something.

Bytales

Full Member

Wednesday, March 1st 2017, 12:16pm

The Card doesnt have Raid, bu t the Point of the Card is not to offer Raid, but to offer the possibility of connecting more than one SSD to a PCI Slot, if there are more lanes available.

For instance my Aquacomputer Card sits in a 16x 3.0 Slot, so 12 Lanes are wasted. With this Card i can add 3 more SSD.

What do you Need raid for, when one SSD has 3500 mb/s read speads and 2500 mb/s write Speeds ?

baconinabun

Newbie

Saturday, March 4th 2017, 12:35am

Quoted from "Bytales"

The Card doesnt have Raid, bu t the Point of the Card is not to offer Raid, but to offer the possibility of connecting more than one SSD to a PCI Slot, if there are more lanes available.

For instance my Aquacomputer Card sits in a 16x 3.0 Slot, so 12 Lanes are wasted. With this Card i can add 3 more SSD.

What do you Need raid for, when one SSD has 3500 mb/s read speads and 2500 mb/s write Speeds ?
you need RAID so you can swing your dick a bit more :D

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "baconinabun" (Mar 4th 2017, 12:36am)

7thOmen

Junior Member

Sorry to necro this thread, but...

Monday, November 22nd 2021, 7:51pm

A question for @Shoggy.
If I want to use multiple KryoM.2 solutions in a row on a compatible motherboard, can I use any of the Kryoconnect for GPU bridges between M.2 water blocks? Are the 3 mounting points the same between the KryoM.2 and the KryoGraphics?

A point to make from earlier posts in this thread. Bifurcation is the feature that will allow a re-organizing of PCIe lanes to split a x16 into other useful combos (ie. 4x4x4x4, 4x4x8, 8x4x4, etc..). HEDT and server boards can allow for this. A dual or quad card with provisions for the KryoM.2 water blocks would be nice. I realize I am in a niche market, so I don't have any real expectations.
Thanks!
Omen
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