Other My NVMe experience

Drudging up my old thread here.

Found some interesting features in smartmontools for a new Intel AIC NVMe drive I recently purchased.

In particular the sectors section.

Code:
Supported LBA Sizes (NSID 0x1)
Id Fmt  Data  Metadt  Rel_Perf
 0 +     512       0         2
 1 -     512       8         2
 2 -     512      16         2
 3 -    4096       0         0
 4 -    4096       8         0
 5 -    4096      64         0
 6 -    4096     128         0

In addition to 512/4096 we have a 'metadt' column that other drives don't have.
So extra sectors for metadata?

I would also call your attention to the Intel 670p PCIe settings. Support for SR-IOV in a consumer M.2 drive??

How bizzare the Data Center AIC doesn't have any SR-IOV support.
Code:
# pciconf -lvcbe nvme0
nvme0@pci0:2:0:0:    class=0x010802 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x0953 subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x3709
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = 'PCIe Data Center SSD'
    class      = mass storage
    subclass   = NVM
    bar   [10] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xb1310000, size 16384, enabled
    cap 01[40] = powerspec 3  supports D0 D3  current D0
    cap 11[50] = MSI-X supports 32 messages, enabled
                 Table in map 0x10[0x2000], PBA in map 0x10[0x3000]
    cap 10[60] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint max data 128(256) FLR RO NS
                 max read 512
                 link x4(x4) speed 8.0(8.0) ASPM disabled(L0s/L1)
    ecap 0001[100] = AER 1 0 fatal 0 non-fatal 0 corrected
    ecap 0002[150] = VC 1 max VC0
    ecap 0004[180] = Power Budgeting 1
    ecap 000e[190] = ARI 1
    ecap 0003[270] = Serial 1 55cd2e414c9c332b
    ecap 0019[2a0] = PCIe Sec 1 lane errors 0
 
I have spied a "Ruler Sized" NVMe called E1.S and E1.L Long and Short form factors. Server equipment.

Has anybody used them? What about adapters? Anything use them?

I see bigger sizes for these than M.2
 
Haven’t used any of those yet but been reading about them for a while:


And yes they seem to go up to many tens of terabytes (60 I think I’ve read about?) e.g.

 
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