use enterprise SSDs with a consumer PC

[Black FishMaker]

Is there a way to use enterprise 2,5" NVMe SSDs with a normal PC? 

As far as im aware they just use a normal PCIe 4x slot but obviously you wouldnt be able to put them in a M.2 or PCIe slot like that.

I saw that there are riser cables for M.2 SSDs but that doesnt look like a good solution either.

Anyone know if there is a proper adapter or something like that? Alternatively a adapter to SATA would also work.

 

[manikyath]

there's probably adapters out there that'll work to some degree... but the question to this is "why?"

 

also - an adapter from one of these to a sata port on the motherboard is just a very, very silly idea. you may as well buy a SATA SSD for the pricepoint one of those adapters would have to be.

[mariushm]

You can buy adapter boards with that connector.

 

For example : https://www.amazon.com/GLOTRENDS-SFF-8639-Adapter-Desktop-Installation/dp/B099185SSV/

or cards that will work with a cable like this one (will do 2 ports if your motherboard supports bifurcation, splitting 8 lanes into 2 groups of 4 lanes, and each 4 lanes go into a connector ) : https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Mini-SAS-Female-Conventional-Desktop/dp/B0B1QLYMH7/

 

 

[Black FishMaker]

3 minutes ago, mariushm said:

You can buy adapter boards with that connector.

 

For example : https://www.amazon.com/GLOTRENDS-SFF-8639-Adapter-Desktop-Installation/dp/B099185SSV/

or cards that will work with a cable like this one (will do 2 ports if your motherboard supports bifurcation, splitting 8 lanes into 2 groups of 4 lanes, and each 4 lanes go into a connector ) : https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Mini-SAS-Female-Conventional-Desktop/dp/B0B1QLYMH7/

 

 

Perfect. Thats exactly what i was looking for. Thank you very much.

[manikyath]

9 minutes ago, mariushm said:

You can buy adapter boards with that connector.

 

For example : https://www.amazon.com/GLOTRENDS-SFF-8639-Adapter-Desktop-Installation/dp/B099185SSV/

or cards that will work with a cable like this one (will do 2 ports if your motherboard supports bifurcation, splitting 8 lanes into 2 groups of 4 lanes, and each 4 lanes go into a connector ) : https://www.amazon.com/Adapter-Mini-SAS-Female-Conventional-Desktop/dp/B0B1QLYMH7/

 

 

pretty sure OP's example isnt a U.2 SSD though.

[mariushm]

1 minute ago, manikyath said:

pretty sure OP's example isnt a U.2 SSD though.

I think it's a new pci-e 5.0 version, I think it's called E3.S,  but it's backwards compatible with the pci-e 4.0 versions so someone just needs to make an adapter cable or an adapter board for it. There were a video about them made by Level1techs, see video below from around 5:30

 

 

 

There's  CD7-R versions (U2) : https://apac.kioxia.com/en-apac/business/ssd/data-center-ssd/cd7-r.html

there's CD7-V (U2) : https://www.kioxia.com/en-jp/business/ssd/data-center-ssd/cd7-v.html

There's a SAS version ..

 

There's also SSDs using that E1.S and E1.L  : https://apac.kioxia.com/en-apac/business/ssd/data-center-ssd/xd6.html

There's adapters or cables for these as well.

 

 

[Black FishMaker]

12 minutes ago, mariushm said:

I think it's a new pci-e 5.0 version, I think it's called E3.S,  but it's backwards compatible with the pci-e 4.0 versions so someone just needs to make an adapter cable or an adapter board for it. There were a video about them made by Level1techs, see video below from around 5:30

 

 

 

There's  CD7-R versions (U2) : https://apac.kioxia.com/en-apac/business/ssd/data-center-ssd/cd7-r.html

there's CD7-V (U2) : https://www.kioxia.com/en-jp/business/ssd/data-center-ssd/cd7-v.html

There's a SAS version ..

 

There's also SSDs using that E1.S and E1.L  : https://apac.kioxia.com/en-apac/business/ssd/data-center-ssd/xd6.html

There's adapters or cables for these as well.

 

 

Ive seen that same connector as the one on the Kioxia drive on PCIe 4 drives aswell but E3.S looks like the correct thing. This should probably work right?

https://www.serialcables.com/product/pcie-gen4-x4-slot-to-e-3-edsff-adapter/

[ipkpjersi]

I'm honestly pretty curious - what use case are you going to have for this? Enterprise SSDs are basically completely overkill for pretty much any consumer workload.

[Black FishMaker]

6 hours ago, ipkpjersi said:

I'm honestly pretty curious - what use case are you going to have for this? Enterprise SSDs are basically completely overkill for pretty much any consumer workload.

Its funny. I actually dont really care about their performance. Reason im asking is because i can get 8TB ones for 200€ per drive. Way cheaper than any other 8TB SSD on the market.