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What m2 to add to a CCR2216 switch

Sun Jan 15, 2023 6:10 pm

Dear readers,

I recently bought myself a CCR2216, and as it has 2 m2 slots in it, I was planning on placing 1 of my 3 Kingston KC3000 NVMe SSD's in it. Now these drives are PCIe 4 and go up to 7.000MB/s speeds, and I realized that the switch would probably only deal with PCIe 3 speeds.
Is this correct?
or can it handle PCIe 4?
And would I even really notice the 4000MB/s throttling the NVMe drive?

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Re: What m2 to add to a CCR2216 switch

Mon Jan 16, 2023 3:35 pm

CCR2216-1G-12XS-2XQ supports only SATA drives in M.2 form factor slot. none of mentioned NVMe drives will work.
You should look for M.2 2280 SATA III. SATA III drives support up to 6Gbps

As it goes for throttling - this greatly depends on use case.
For light Container use - this shouldn't be noticeable on good quality drives even on much slower SATA drives.
If high disk bandwidth is a MUST! - CCR2116-12G-4S+ is equipped with 1x M.2 slot with 4xPCIe3.0 lanes.
 
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Re: What m2 to add to a CCR2216 switch

Mon Jan 16, 2023 4:36 pm

If high disk bandwidth is a MUST! - CCR2116-12G-4S+ is equipped with 1x M.2 slot with 4xPCIe3.0 lanes.
CCR2116-12G-4S+ supports Current PCIe NVMe drives ? classic PCIe AHCI drives ? or both ?
 
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Re: What m2 to add to a CCR2216 switch

Mon Jan 16, 2023 5:03 pm

i have already answered this question previously.
viewtopic.php?p=953660#p953567
 
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Re: What m2 to add to a CCR2216 switch

Mon Jan 16, 2023 5:50 pm

Interesting. Didn't realize such a new device wouldn't support the NVMe protocol, and not that many SATA m.2 drives out there.
This model seems to be an m.2 Sata
' WD Red SA500 M.2 '
Would this model work in the 2216?
Otherwise, is there a list of which models do work?
 
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Re: What m2 to add to a CCR2216 switch

Tue Jan 17, 2023 2:25 pm

' WD Red SA500 M.2 ' will work, any SATA m.2 should work.

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