Unable to use M.2 SSD on CCR2216-1G-12XS-2XQ

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Hello!

We’ve just got our branch new CCR2216-1G-12XS-2XQ. After setting it up we added 2 Samsung M.2 SSD 980 sticks with 500GB each to it and powered it on.

However, they doesn’t appear on /disk print.

Do we have to do anything to enable those disks?

Thanks! Any light would be appreciated.

Best regards,
Gutemberg

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MikroTik has not specified if this m.2 slot supports nvme modern disks nor has published a validated list of disks or max capacity supported

i think is necessary to establish a compatibility matrix because some references support m.2 sata and other m.2 pci express (without specifying protocol AHCI or NVME)

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Thanks for the reply. But that is indeed weird. Their own video on the product page show that same Samsung SSD series attached to the device.

On the product page you see the M.2 type and the max size:

https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/display/UM/CCR2216-1G-12XS-2XQ#heading-ExtensionSlotsandPorts

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Hi,

Samsung 860 EVO SATA in the product video. Samsung 980 PRO is NVMe.

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OMG! How did I missed that?!?! I only saw the Samsung and M.2 part and haven’t noted that difference.

Thanks A LOT for that. I’m sourcing 2 860 EVO SATA now. Will try again tomorrow and report back.

Thank you!

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I hope I don’t be a problem later

most storage vendors are migrating to making mostly m.2 pci express NV-ME SSD’s, every day is more difficult to find m.2 SATA SSD’s

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another related novelty:

ccr2116 m.2 slot is pci express (nvme or ahci? who knows)
ccr2216 m.2 stots are sata

being that they use the same SOC why the difference?

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That is interesting question that I hope some folks from Mikrotik would come here and shed some light later.

But I would expect that their most high end (and expensive) routers/switches to use NVME. I never actually thought about that when making the purchase as it is so “default” to get M.2 sticks as NVME.

Specially now that we have (at least beta for now) support for containers.

Anyway, will ping back with the results tomorrow once I get the SATA sticks to try out.

Thanks!

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Just to update everyone. Indeed, the disk HAS to be SATA in order for it to work (at least by the time I made this post). Got new disks Today and was able to format both as FAT32 just fine. Now I’m looking forward for the containers support to go to stable channel so we can put the images/volumes on them.

As a side note, I still believe someone from Mikrotik team should jump in here and let us know if SATA is just something temporary and they will plan to implement NVME since their chips support it to avoid further questions like this.

Thank you all for the replies!

(marking this as the answer to make it easier to track but kudos to @chechito and @andkar)

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