Optiplex 7070 SFF and Intel Optane M10

@Chino de Oro​ hmm, so I can't accelerate a mirror? So the feature that allows me to create a mirror, which is also the feature that allows me to use Optane acceleration can't do both. Ugh. This seems very short sighted. OK, well no Optane on Windows for me I guess.

I thought this feature was also promoted for Windows Server, and not just desktops? I would NEVER run any kind of a server without some sort of single point disk failure prevention. I use Optanes on Linux, BSD, even Solaris all the time for acceleration cache. Although I don't use RST to do this.

Unfortunately, no acceleration option for RAID volume as you could see.  With the limit to PCIe gen 3 x 2, Optane M10 can only run at half the speed of an NVMe drive in the 7070 SFF.  Not really a good choice for storage setup.

@Chino de Oro​ hmm interesting, I didn't realize the M10 was 2x. I'd only ever used P1600 and P4800 Optanes for servers. I'd got a couple of these for my Windows boxes because A) they're relatively cheap and B) because the RST limit was 32GB anyway from what I read.

Given my intention to use both PCI slots, one for Video and one for a 10Gb NIC, and that I don't run anything without a mirror or parity means I was limited to SATA3. The M10 seemed like an easy bump, and even at 2X still would have been, just a little less so. Anyway, not out that much, it's disappointing though, and frankly rather puzzling why you'd make a firmware that does RAID and acceleration but not both.

I'd use them for virtual memory but frankly I configured these machines maxed out at 64GB so adding a 32GB Optane for a paging file seems a little weak. I still might though, because, well what else am I going to do with them?