Another vote for Tintri. We're running multiple Tintri appliances of various generations (T540's, T650's, T880's, and a couple of T5080 AFA's). Super easy to setup and administer, excellent support. Great integration w/ VMware. The thing to keep in mind is that these are meant for virtualized...
Necessary? No. Honestly you probably won't notice a difference in day to day performance. Is there a particular reason you are looking at m.2?
FYI, I'm using a Samsung SM951 512GB m.2 NVMe for Boot and some games (the ones I play most frequently), but I also have a 1tb 840 evo, which I'm...
I think your reply was to OP, where as shilohj is a different person with a different setup. I started to reply yesterday, but when I realized it was 2 separate people, I ended up not.
Interesting that they state this:
But, they don't actually have any new 5700/5940 rpm drives listed in the press release.
*Edit*
Actually they do, I just missed it below the 7200's.
DT01ABA300 - 3TB 5940 RPM w/ 32MB cache
DT01ABA200 - 2TB 5700 RPM w/ 32MB cache
DT01ABA150 - 1.5TB 5700 RPM...
My experience is the exact opposite.. Not only did it take a few weeks to get a replacement (I didn't bother with an advance replacement, as I had a spare), they sent me a 25nm drive to replace my 34nm drive. On top of that, it's one with the 64Gbit modules, so it's ~4GB smaller than my original...
I just purchased this board as an open box from Newegg. It already had the v2 BIOS flashed (IvyBridge). Also worth noting is that it was a complete retail kit (SATA cables, unused IO Shield, manual, cd). I suspect the recent open Supermicro open boxes are from Supermicro (I also have an X8SIA-F...