SciencioGT

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Reccomended PCIe 16x to 2 8x slot for NIC card and HBA card? (alien.top)
 

Hey guys, was wondering if you have any recommended PCIe bifurcation card for PCIE 16x to 2 8x slots. I recently come across a Dell PCIe 16x to two 8x PCIe lane Dell PowerEdge R710 PCI-E PCIe 2x8 Riser

Will there be any compatibility issues, corruption on my hdd drives if possible

Looking for advise on HBA card in limited PCIE slot in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Could I use a M.2 to PCIe riser 8x? My M.2 is PCIe 4.0

Looking for advise on HBA card in limited PCIE slot in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the advice! Sorry, forgot to give more information about my server I use a

Prime B550M A (wifi) motherboard - 2x PCIe 3.0 1x slots

Ryzen 5500

16 GB RAM

NIC card = Intel X540 t2 (recently purchased)

LSI HBA card I planned to purchase = LSI 9211-4i - PCI 2.0

Looking for advise on HBA card in limited PCIE slot in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

There will be bottlenecks? I have 7200 rpm drives, can I clarify, if each drives is 200 mb/s and PCIe 1x use 1gb/s. I will be good? The LSI HBA card is one SAS to 4 Sata, so 4 x 200 mb/s = 800 mb/s. I'm not sure if this is how it works.

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Looking for advise on HBA card in limited PCIE slot (alien.top)
 

Hey guys, is it ok if I use a LSI HBA card for Pcie 1x slot? My 16x slot is being used by my 8x NIC and my motherboard does not support difurcation. I planned to have two LSI HBA card on my two 1x PCIE slot, is it safe to have drives running on two LSI HBA card?