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January 27th, 2021 08:00
Dell Poweredge T320 M.2-PCIE adapter
I'm looking to add some kind of SSD drive to my 8-3.5"-bay Poweredge T320. I DO NOT need to boot off of it as my particular OS runs off a USB drive, I would just like a cache drive without sacrificing the drive bays. I have been considering adding a M.2 to PCIe adapter and I'm wondering if this is compatible.
Are M.2 SATA SSDs and/or M.2 NVME SSDs supported?
From my research it does not look like PCIe bifurcation is supported on the motherboard, but I would also like to verify the Dell Ultraspeed Quad NVME adapter does not work as well.
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DELL-Josh Cr
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January 27th, 2021 13:00
Hi latota,
PCIe bifurcation was not added until 14th generation servers. We have not validated NVMe on these servers and it probably will not work.
Robert.UK
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December 16th, 2022 03:00
Hi @latota
Did you try installing an M.2 NVME PCIe adapter? Can you report back if it worked or not? I have seen other threads on other websites that suggest it does in fact work well, out-the-box, on a 12Gen Dell server, such as the T320.
Thanks (in advance)
Mascomatt
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January 5th, 2023 11:00
Interested to learn this also.
Ninemeister
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January 21st, 2023 06:00
I'm running a PCIe M.2 NVMe adapter with a Western Digital 1TB Blue SSD as a boot drive for Windows 11 and it works wonderfully. Using the internal USB port to boot off a small flash drive that loads Clover at boot then points to the Win11 install on the NVMe.
Mine is a T320 that i've replaced the motherboard with that from a T420, but they're pretty much the same board only with one less CPU and set of associated RAM sockets.
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January 21st, 2023 07:00
And to directly answer your second question, you're correct. These boards do not support bifurcation.