Hi everyone,
A few threads over the last few months address the issue of NVMe SSD PCIe adapters and the new life they can offer to the cMP. After reading most (all?) of them I was convinced about the highpoint 7101A but stumbled on the newer 7102 then replaced by the 7103. Major difference appeared to be the capability to create a bootable (hardware) raid with the 7103 (recognises by the 2010 cMP), but at least one user here found that the cMP fans were then boosted to much higher revs (without a significant T increase that could justify it), making the noise factor a no-go in his case (probably the same for me).
But this is making me uncertain about what is the best option: the 7101A, which isn’t able to boot from raid (not dramatic in my case), has a potentially disturbing fan noise (but solutions were found and described here, should be fine), or a 7103 that appears to allow raid boot with the cMP (very interesting for me), potentially has the same board fan noise (but likely to be fixable like the 7101A), but might (or will it definitely?) mess up with the cMP fan control and raise those fans as well (it wasn’t clear to me if this was fixable but apparently was not...).
Can anyone help please? Which of these two cards could be the better option for an aging 2010 cMP that has recently bailed out of the hard disk train in favour of SSDs all around (and working superbly like that)?
PS: congratulations to you guys for this outstanding resource. Keeping this amazing machine competitive after 10 years is a remarkable feat, not possible without your efforts!
Jose
A few threads over the last few months address the issue of NVMe SSD PCIe adapters and the new life they can offer to the cMP. After reading most (all?) of them I was convinced about the highpoint 7101A but stumbled on the newer 7102 then replaced by the 7103. Major difference appeared to be the capability to create a bootable (hardware) raid with the 7103 (recognises by the 2010 cMP), but at least one user here found that the cMP fans were then boosted to much higher revs (without a significant T increase that could justify it), making the noise factor a no-go in his case (probably the same for me).
But this is making me uncertain about what is the best option: the 7101A, which isn’t able to boot from raid (not dramatic in my case), has a potentially disturbing fan noise (but solutions were found and described here, should be fine), or a 7103 that appears to allow raid boot with the cMP (very interesting for me), potentially has the same board fan noise (but likely to be fixable like the 7101A), but might (or will it definitely?) mess up with the cMP fan control and raise those fans as well (it wasn’t clear to me if this was fixable but apparently was not...).
Can anyone help please? Which of these two cards could be the better option for an aging 2010 cMP that has recently bailed out of the hard disk train in favour of SSDs all around (and working superbly like that)?
PS: congratulations to you guys for this outstanding resource. Keeping this amazing machine competitive after 10 years is a remarkable feat, not possible without your efforts!
Jose
