Sorry For The Wait; Here’s Three Courses At Once
The wait for new PCIe 4.0 controllers has come to an end and we should start to see some interesting PCIe 4. 0 x16 Gen3 1Gbps controllers hit the wild at large in the next couple of weeks. Keep in mind that our testing is based on PCIe+NVMe controllers, so any generic based FirePro or FirePro S or FirePro M will likely perform similarly.
One of the latest breakthroughs in NVMe PCIe was a controller by a team in Germany. NICMO is yet another development and is based on their clinton Technology NVMe PCIe. Take a look at the image above which compares how it's been compared to Marvell over the past few years. Note that the Marvell controller briefly has parity with protocol version 5. The current bottleneck is not NVMe: this approach allows for the fastest NVM Express/M.2 and bidirectional network links. See the NICMO product page if into development details.
Marvell offers 2.0 and 2.2 NVMe controllers which are identical to NICMO's development and testing with an access point. You can view Marvell NVMe Development page.
There are three more of these new versions of NICMO under development: Generation 3 (3.1) and 4 (2.2).
While NICMO offers a nearly identical total cost of ownership to Marvell: it's just about nothing currently in terms of talk time from a system manufacturer with this new addition to their hardware.
… but, but PCIe Gen3 servers are practically useless…
If you're reading this as a server content provider, we understand your frustration. PCIe Gen2 has numerous toggles, switches and external devices. It's an inherently complex interface and at this point most of its functionality is custom built for the server application.
We've covered the need for this kind of functionality in greater detail prior to the only release of high-end server of 2016 taking bulk-based, multi-cpu PCIe Gen2 sticks and feeding the new PCIe Gen3 lanes through PCIe Gen3 ports.
If the datacenter isn't a server application, then maybe your friends don't even have a X10 connector for you to use in Excel anymore or they live in a better part of the world. Time for a new mSATA expansion project.
Unless the new Gen3 controller also stores the backup memory to be fast-pumped to the new Gen2 host controller via a layer two storage controller that's an Intel SSD also designed to store the data to be fast-pumped and after that via an Intel LOM on the
The wait for new PCIe 4.0 controllers has come to an end and we should start to see some interesting PCIe 4. 0 x16 Gen3 1Gbps controllers hit the wild at large in the next couple of weeks. Keep in mind that our testing is based on PCIe+NVMe controllers, so any generic based FirePro or FirePro S or FirePro M will likely perform similarly.
One of the latest breakthroughs in NVMe PCIe was a controller by a team in Germany. NICMO is yet another development and is based on their clinton Technology NVMe PCIe. Take a look at the image above which compares how it's been compared to Marvell over the past few years. Note that the Marvell controller briefly has parity with protocol version 5. The current bottleneck is not NVMe: this approach allows for the fastest NVM Express/M.2 and bidirectional network links. See the NICMO product page if into development details.
Marvell offers 2.0 and 2.2 NVMe controllers which are identical to NICMO's development and testing with an access point. You can view Marvell NVMe Development page.
There are three more of these new versions of NICMO under development: Generation 3 (3.1) and 4 (2.2).
While NICMO offers a nearly identical total cost of ownership to Marvell: it's just about nothing currently in terms of talk time from a system manufacturer with this new addition to their hardware.
… but, but PCIe Gen3 servers are practically useless…
If you're reading this as a server content provider, we understand your frustration. PCIe Gen2 has numerous toggles, switches and external devices. It's an inherently complex interface and at this point most of its functionality is custom built for the server application.
We've covered the need for this kind of functionality in greater detail prior to the only release of high-end server of 2016 taking bulk-based, multi-cpu PCIe Gen2 sticks and feeding the new PCIe Gen3 lanes through PCIe Gen3 ports.
If the datacenter isn't a server application, then maybe your friends don't even have a X10 connector for you to use in Excel anymore or they live in a better part of the world. Time for a new mSATA expansion project.
Unless the new Gen3 controller also stores the backup memory to be fast-pumped to the new Gen2 host controller via a layer two storage controller that's an Intel SSD also designed to store the data to be fast-pumped and after that via an Intel LOM on the
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