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In our experience these adapters are always yet another point of failure, and are usually cheaply made. If this is mission critical do not cheap out on the adapter, haven't used these ones specifically but we've used m.2 to pcie adapters and only had good luck with the more expensive ones.
Whilst I agree they do offer hot swap which allows for that point of failure to prevent taking the server offline to simply swap a drive. If the m.2 is a sata drive that is. If its PCi-e yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh rip.
Yea a lot of times you are just better off buying the correct drive for the interface.
@vmhaus A new competitor is coming!
Not something I would ever put into production.
Those are cheaper. He just tries to save a few £ on the mission critical kit.
I used them for other PCIe projects. They contain basic tech that does PCI_RST (the clock signal) at times so the cable length CAN be an issue, but usually is not.
Worked fine for a Samsung 960 Pro SSD native on PCH/CPU, did NOT work behind a PLX chip for lane splitting. Did not work at all without hardware mods for my PCIe things.
At 30-50EUR each they are expensive for what they contain which is really not much.
PCIe SSDs in 2,5" CAN be hot swapped, that is the entire appeal of having them for servers. The CPU/chip handles this, and PCIe hotplug is in the standard since 1.1.
How is the build quality of those Delock converters? Would you put them in a SuperServer 1028U-TN10RT+?
Yes, they are built ok. Not cheap however.